Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/21 September


 * 1971 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 439 satellite.
 * 1973 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 587 satellite.
 * 1976 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 855 satellite.
 * 1981 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Aureole 3 satellite.
 * 1984 - A Delta 3920 launches the Galaxy 3 satellite.
 * 1994 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos 2291 satellite.
 * 2000 - A Titan 23G launches the NOAA-16 satellite.
 * 2001 - A Taurus fails to launch the Orbview-4 and QuikTOMS satellites, along with a Celestis space burial payload.
 * 2010 - An Atlas V launches the USA-215 reconnaissance satellite.
 * 2011 - An Ariane 5 ECA launches the Arabsat 5C and SES-2 satellites.