Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 June

• 1959 - A Luna fails to launch a Luna probe.
• 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches the FTV-2312 satellite.
• 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches the OPS-4467A satellites.
• 1965 - A Titan IIIC launches a Transtage on a test flight.
• 1968 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 227 satellite.
• 1974 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 660 satellite.
• 1975 - An Atlas-Agena launches an AFP-827 satellite.
• 1977 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 919 satellite.
• 1980 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1980 - A Titan IIID launches a KH-9 satellite.
• 1982 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1379 satellite.
• 1982 - A Kosmos-3M fails to launch the Kosmos 1380 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1381 satellite.
• 1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger launches on mission STS-7, with the Anik C2 and Palapa B1 satellites. Mission specialist Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• 1985 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1661 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1759 satellite.
• 1987 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1860 satellite.
• 1991 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1997 - A Proton-K/DM-5 launches several Iridium satellites.
• 1998 - An Atlas IIAS launches the Intelsat 805 satellite.
• 1999 - A Proton-K launches the Astra 1H satellite.
• 2006 - A Zenit-3SL launches the Galaxy 16 satellite.
• 2009 - An Atlas V 401 launches the LRO and LCROSS probes to the Moon.