Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/16 April

• 1960 - A Vostok-L fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1972 - A Saturn V launches the manned Apollo 16 mission to the Moon.
• 1975 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 727 satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1265 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1645 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1836 satellite.
• 1991 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2142 satellite.
• 1993 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 2242 satellite.
• 1997 - An Ariane 4 launches the Thaicom 3 and BSAT 1a satellites.
• 2002 - An Ariane 4 launches the NSS 7 satellite.
• 2004 - An Atlas IIAS launches the Superbird 6 satellite.
• 2008 - A Pegasus-XL launches C/NOFS
• 2010 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2462 Kobal't-M reconnaissance satellite.