Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/8 April

• 1961 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 23 satellite.
• 1964 - A Titan II launches the Gemini 1 spacecraft.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Centaur fails to launch a boilerplate Surveyor spacecraft.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches the OAO A1 satellite.
• 1967 - A Proton-K fails to launch the Kosmos 154 spacecraft.
• 1970 - A Thorad-Agena launches the Nimbus 4 satellite.
• 1970 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 331 satellite.
• 1970 - A Titan IIIC launches the Vela 6A and 6B satellites.
• 1975 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 725 satellite.
• 1982 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1349 satellite.
• 1983 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1451 satellite.
• 1984 - A Long March 3 launches the first operational STW satellite.
• 1987 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1834 satellite.
• 1992 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2183 satellite.
• 1993 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on the ATLAS-2 (Spacelab) mission, STS-56.
• 1996 - A Proton-K launches the Astra 1F satellite.
• 2002 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-110 with the ITS S0 Truss for the ISS.
• 2003 - A Titan IV launches a Milstar satellite.
• 2008 - A Soyuz-FG launches the Soyuz TMA-12 mission to the ISS, with the first South Korean in space, and the first second-generation space traveller.
• 2010 - A Dnepr-1 launches the CryoSat-2 ice monitoring satellite.