Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 May


 * 1968 - A Thorad-Agena fails to launch the Nimbus-B satellite.
 * 1963 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
 * 1964 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 30 satellite.
 * 1965 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
 * 1967 - A Scout A launches the NNS O-13 satellite.
 * 1969 - A Saturn V launches the manned Apollo 10 mission to test the Apollo Lunar Module in selenocentric orbit.
 * 1971 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 420 satellite.
 * 1973 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 559 satellite.
 * 1976 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 818 satellite.
 * 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1270 satellite.
 * 1988 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1944 satellite.
 * 1991 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the manned Soyuz TM-12 mission to Mir, with the first British cosmonaut, Helen Sharman, aboard.
 * 1999 - A Pegasus-XL launches the TERRIERS and MUBLCOM satellites.
 * 2001 - A Delta II launches the GeoLITE satellite.