Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 September

• 1857 - Maria Yumasheva gives birth to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Izhevskoye, Russia.
• 1959 - A Thor-Able fails to launch the Transit 1A satellite.
• 1961 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 31 satellite.
• 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1966 - An R-36 launches an OGCh FOBS test spacecraft.
• 1970 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 363 satellite.
• 1975 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela satellites.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1499 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the manned Soyuz T-14 mission.
• 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1781 satellite.
• 1986 - An Atlas E/F launches the NOAA-10 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1886 satellite.
• 1991 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 1993 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 2264 satellite.
• 2009 - A Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat launches the Meteor M-1, Universitetsky-Tatyana-2, Sterkh-2, UGATUSAT, BLITS, SumbandilaSat and IRIS spacecraft.
• 2009 - A Proton-M/Briz-M launches the Nimiq 5 satellite.
• 2012 - A Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat launches the MetOp-B weather satellite.