Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/6 April

• 1962 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 2 satellite.
• 1963 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1965 - A Delta D launches the Intelsat I (Early Bird) satellite.
• 1966 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 114 satellite.
• 1967 - An Atlas-Agena launches the ATS-2 satellite.
• 1968 - An Atlas E/F launches the OV1-13 and 14 satellites.
• 1972 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 484 satellite.
• 1973 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Pioneer 11 probe.
• 1976 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 812 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1002 satellite.
• 1983 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1450 satellite.
• 1984 - Space Shuttle Challenger launches on the STS-41-C mission to deploy the LDEF and repair the Solar Max satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2017 satellite.
• 1990 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2064-Kosmos 2071 satellites.
• 1993 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2241 satellite.
• 1997 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-34 spacecraft to resupply Mir.