Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/15 May

• 1958 - A Sputnik launches the Sputnik 3 satellite.
• 1960 - A Vostok-L launches a Korabl'-Sputnik satellite.
• 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1963 - An Atlas LV-3B launches the last Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9, with astronaut Gordon Cooper aboard.
• 1966 - A Thor-Agena launches the Nimbus 2 satellite.
• 1967 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 158 satellite.
• 1974 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 651 satellite.
• 1974 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 652 satellite.
• 1974 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 653 satellite.
• 1976 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1098 satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1180 satellite.
• 1981 - A Scout G-1 launches the Nova 1 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1649 satellite.
• 1986 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1743 satellite.
• 1987 - An Atlas H launches three NOSS satellites.
• 1987 - The first Energia rocket fails to launch the Polyus satellite.
• 1988 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 1943 satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2078 satellite.
• 1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-84 to visit Mir.
• 1997 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2343 satellite.
• 2001 - A Proton-K launches the PanAmSat-10 satellite.
• 2002 - A Long March 4B launches the FY-1D satellite.
• 2012 - A Soyuz-FG launches Soyuz TMA-04M, carrying three of the Expedition 31 crew to the ISS.
• 2012 - An Ariane 5ECA launches the JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2 satellites.
• 2013 - An Atlas V launches GPS IIF-4, the first operational GPS satellite launched on an Atlas rocket.