Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/9 January


 * 1970 - A Voskhod rocket launches a Zenit-2M spy satellite.
 * 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-6U spy satellite.
 * 1981 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 communication satellite.
 * 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar-4K1 spy satellite.
 * 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela communication satellites.
 * 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar-4K1 spy satellite.
 * 1990 - The launches on mission STS-32 to deploy Leasat-5 and collect the LDEF.
 * 1998 - The crew of Mir perform an EVA to repair the Kvant-2 airlock.
 * 2001 - A Long March 2F launches Shenzhou 2, a test mission for the Shenzhou spacecraft.
 * 2012 - A Long March 4B launches the Ziyuan 3 and VesselSat-2 satellites.
 * 2014 - Cygnus CRS Orb-1, a Cygnus spacecraft flying its first commercial resupply mission for the ISS, is launched on an Antares rocket.