Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/23 May


 * 1968 - A Thor-Burner launches the DAPP 5421 satellite.
 * 1969 - A Titan IIIC launches the Vela 5A and 5B satellites.
 * 1973 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 560 satellite.
 * 1974 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
 * 1977 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 910 satellite.
 * 1977 - An Atlas-Agena launches an AFP-827 satellite.
 * 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1010 satellite.
 * 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1011 satellite.
 * 1980 - An Ariane 1 fails to launch the Firewheel satellite.
 * 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1182 satellite.
 * 1981 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Intelsat 501 satellite.
 * 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress 13 spacecraft to resupply the Salyut 7 Space Station.
 * 1984 - An Ariane 1 launches the Spacenet-1 satellite.
 * 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1654 satellite.
 * 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1745 satellite.
 * 1995 - An Atlas I launches the GOES 9 satellite.
 * 2008 - A Rokot launches three Gonets satellites and Yubileiny.