Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/24 October

• 1960 - The first R-16 explodes prior to launch at Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 41/3, killing 120.
• 1962 - A Molniya fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1963 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1964 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 49 satellite.
• 1967 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 184 satellite.
• 1969 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 306 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 307 satellite.
• 1969 - A Titan 23B launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1974 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1978 - A Delta 2910 launches the Nimbus 7 satellite.
• 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Interkosmos-18 satellite.
• 1980 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1217 satellite.
• 1985 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1989 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1996 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 1997 - A Titan IV launches the Lacrosse-3 satellite.
• 1998 - A Delta II launches the Deep Space 1 spacecraft.
• 2007 - A Long March 3A launches the Chang'e-1 Lunar orbiter.