Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/21 October

• 1961 - An Atlas-Agena launches the Midas 4 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 304 satellite.
• 1971 - A Delta N fails to launch the ITOS-B satellite.
• 1976 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 861 satellite.
• 1975 - Venera 9 becomes the first man-made object to enter Cytherocentric orbit.
• 1977 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 959 satellite.
• 1982 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1418 satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1505 satellite.
• 1985 - A Long March 2C launches an FSW satellite.
• 1989 - A Delta II launches the GPS II-4 satellite.
• 1992 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2217 satellite.
• 1998 - An Ariane 5 launches the ARD and Maqsat-3 satellites.
• 2000 - A Zenit-3SL launches the Thuraya 1 satellite.
• 2000 - A Proton-K launches the GE-6 satellite.
• 2001 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz TM-33 mission to the ISS.
• 2003 - A Long March 4B launches the CBERS-2 satellite.
• 2011 - A Soyuz-STB/Fregat, the first Soyuz rocket ever to fly from the Guiana Space Center, launches 2 Galileo IOV navigation satellites.