Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/24 April


 * 1962 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 3 satellite.
 * 1967 - Vladimir Komarov becomes the first person to die as a result of an in-flight anomaly, when Soyuz 1 suffers a parachute failure during landing.
 * 1968 - A Tsyklon launches the Kosmos 217 satellite.
 * 1970 - China conducts its first satellite launch, when a Long March 1 places the DFH-1 satellite into orbit.
 * 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 335 satellite.
 * 1971 - A Scout B launches the San Marco C satellite.
 * 1971 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 408 satellite.
 * 1974 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1975 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 730 satellite.
 * 1981 - A Titan 34B launches the OPS 7225 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Proton-K fails to launch three GLONASS satellites.
 * 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1841 satellite.
 * 1990 - launches on mission STS-31 to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
 * 1991 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1996 - A Delta II launches the MSX satellite.
 * 1996 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2332 satellite.
 * 1996 - A Titan IV launches a Mercury satellite.
 * 1998 - A Delta II launches several Globalstar satellites.
 * 2003 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos 2397 satellite.
 * 2006 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-56 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
 * 2007 - A Minotaur I launches the NFIRE satellite.
 * 2010 - A Proton-M launches the SES-1 satellite.
 * 2013 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-19M spacecraft to resupply the ISS.