Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/12 September

• 1959 - A Luna launches Luna 2, the first spacecraft to land on the Moon.
• 1961 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 30 satellite.
• 1962 - A Molniya fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches a GATV rendezvous target.
• 1966 - A Titan II rocket launches Gemini 11, with astronauts Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon aboard, into low Earth orbit.
• 1967 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 176 satellite.
• 1970 - A Proton launches Luna 16, the first robotic sample return mission to the Moon.
• 1975 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 759 satellite.
• 1984 - A Long March 2C launches its sixth FSW-0 satellite.
• 1985 - An Ariane 3 fails to launch the ECS-3 and Spacenet 3 satellites.
• 1991 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-48 to deploy the UARS satellite.
• 1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on Spacelab mission STS-47.
• 1993 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-51 to deploy the ACTS satellite, and conduct the SPAS-Orfeus astronomy experiment.
• 1996 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIA-27 satellite.
• 2002 - A PSLV launches the METSAT satellite.
• 2006 - A Long March 3A launches the Chinasat-22A satellite.