Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/28 April

• 1963 - A Vostok-2 rocket launches the Kosmos 16 satellite.
• 1965 - An Atlas-Agena launches an AFP-206 satellite.
• 1967 - A Titan IIIC launches two Vela satellites.
• 1970 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1971 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 409 satellite.
• 1976 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 815 satellite.
• 1976 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 816 satellite.
• 1977 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1268 satellite.
• 1982 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1354 satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1458 satellite.
• 1983 - A Delta 3914 launches the GOES 6 satellite.
• 1990 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2076 satellite.
• 1991 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-39.
• 1993 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 2244 satellite.
• 1994 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2280 satellite.
• 1998 - An Ariane 4 launches the Nilesat 101 and BSAT 1b satellites.
• 1999 - A Kosmos-3M launches the ABRIXAS and Megsat satellites.
• 2001 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz TM-32 mission, with Dennis Tito, the first space tourist aboard.
• 2003 - A Pegasus-XL launches the GALEX satellite.
• 2006 - A Delta II launches the Calipso and Cloudsat satellites.
• 2008 - A PSLV launches the Cartosat-2A and 10 other satellites.
• 2008 - The first Zenit-3SLB launches the Amos-3 satellite.
• 2010 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-05M spacecraft to resupply the ISS.