Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/5 April

• 1963 - A Scout X-3 fails to launch the Transit VA-2 satellite.
• 1973 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
• 1975 - A Soyuz rocket fails to launch a maned flight which would have been the Soyuz 18 mission had it reached orbit.
• 1977 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1977 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 901 satellite.
• 1988 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1937 satellite.
• 1990 - The Pegasus rocket makes its maiden flight, launching the Pegsat and NavySat satellites.
• 1991 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on mission STS-37.
• 1995 - A Shavit launches the Ofeq-3 satellite.
• 2009 - A Unha fails to launch the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite.
• 2010 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on the STS-131 mission to the International Space Station.