Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/3 March


 * 1959 - A Juno II launches the Pioneer 4 spacecraft.
 * 1967 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 145 satellite.
 * 1969 - A Saturn V launches the manned Apollo 9 mission.
 * 1971 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 399 satellite.
 * 1971 - A Long March 1 launches the SJ-1 satellite.
 * 1972 - Launch of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, the first mission to successfully reach Jupiter.
 * 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 896 satellite.
 * 1980 - An Atlas E/F launches a NOSS satellite.
 * 1982 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1341 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 28 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
 * 1987 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1825 satellite.