Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/9 April


 * 1959 - NASA formally selected its first astronauts, the Mercury Seven.
 * 1962 - An Atlas-Agena launches the Midas 5 satellite.
 * 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 211 satellite.
 * 1969 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 278 satellite.


 * 1975 - A Delta 1410 launches the Geos 3 satellite.
 * 1976 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 813 satellite.
 * 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz 35 mission.
 * 1981 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1263 satellite.
 * 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1739 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1835 satellite.
 * 1994 - launches on mission STS-59.
 * 1995 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-27 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
 * 1997 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2340 satellite.
 * 1999 - A Titan IV fails to launch a DSP satellite.
 * 2003 - An Ariane 5 launches the Galaxy 12 and Insat 3A satellites.
 * 2007 - A Proton-M launches the Anik F3 satellite.
 * 2011 - A Long March 3A launches the Beidou-2 I1 satellite for the Chinese Beidou Navigation Satellite System.
 * 2014 - A Shavit 2 launches the Israeli Ofeq-10 reconnaissance satellite