Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/8 July

• 1966 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 123 satellite.
• 1971 - A Scout B launches the Explorer 44 satellite.
• 1975 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
• 1976 - A Titan IIID launches a KH-9 satellite.
• 1976 - A Delta 2914 launches the Palapa A1 satellite.
• 1976 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 839 satellite.
• 1977 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 926 satellite.
• 1983 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1481 satellite.
• 1985 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1666 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1865 satellite.
• 1992 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2196 satellite.
• 1994 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on Spacelab mission STS-65.
• 1994 - An Ariane 4 launches the BSAT 3N and PanAmSat 2 satellites.
• 1999 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 2002 - A Kosmos-3M launches two Strela satellites.
• 2003 - The first Delta IIH launches the Opportunity rover towards Mars.
• 2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-135, the final ever Space Shuttle mission.