Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/6 October


 * 1964 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 47 satellite.
 * 1964 - A Thor-Ablestar launches the NNS O-1 satellite.
 * 1969 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1973 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 597 satellite.
 * 1975 - A Delta 2910 launches the Explorer 54 spacecraft.
 * 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1042 satellite.
 * 1981 - A Delta 2310 launches the SME satellite.
 * 1986 - A Long March 2C launches an FSW satellite.
 * 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1784 satellite.
 * 1990 - launches on mission STS-41 to deploy the Ulysses spacecraft.
 * 1992 - A Long March 2C launches an FSW-1 satellite.
 * 1994 - An Atlas IIAS launches the Intelsat 703 satellite.
 * 1995 - A Kosmos-3M fails to launch the Kosmos 2321 satellite.
 * 2000 - An Ariane 4 launches the N-Sat 110 satellite.
 * 2001 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
 * 2008 - The MESSENGER probe gets a gravity assist as it swings by Mercury.
 * 2010 - A Long March 4B launches two Shi Jian 6 satellites.