Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 August


 * 1960 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 14 satellite.
 * 1960 - A Thor-Ablestar fails to launch the Courier 1A satellite.
 * 1962 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 8 satellite.
 * 1964 - A Kosmos-1 launches three satellites.
 * 1966 - A Scout A launches the NNS O-10 satellite.
 * 1970 - A Titan 23B launches a KH-8 satellite.
 * 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 515 satellite.
 * 1976 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 849 satellite.
 * 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1297 satellite.
 * 1985 - A Mu-3S-II launches the Suisei spacecraft.
 * 1987 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1988 - A Proton-K launches a Gorizont satellite.
 * 1989 - A Delta II launches the GPS II-3 satellite.
 * 1990 - A Delta II launches the Marcopolo 2 satellite.
 * 1996 - A Long March 3 fails to launch the Chinasat-7 satellite.
 * 1999 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2365 satellite.
 * 2008 - A Proton-M/Briz-M launches the Inmarsat 4-F3 satellite.
 * 2011 - A Long March 2C fails to launch the Shijian XI-04 satellite.