Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/1 March

• 1966 - A Molniya-M fails to launch the Kosmos 111 satellite.
• 1966 - Venera 3 impacts Venus, the first space probe to hit the surface of another planet
• 1972 - A Titan IIIC launches the DSP-3 satellite.
• 1972 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 476 satellite.
• 1973 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 550 satellite.
• 1979 - A Vostok-2M launches the Meteor-2 satellite.
• 1982 - Venera 13 successfully lands on Venus
• 1984 - A Delta 3920 launches the Landsat 5 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1632 satellite.
• 1997 - An Ariane 4 launches the Intelsat 801 satellite.
• 2002 - An Ariane 5 launches the Envisat satellite.
• 2002 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on the STS-109 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 2005 - A Zenit-3SL launches the XM-3 Rhythm satellite.
• 2010 - A Proton-M launches three GLONASS-M navigation satellites.
• 2013 - A Falcon 9 launches the second operational flight of the Dragon spacecraft to the ISS.