Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/27 January

• 1967 - Three astronauts are killed when a fire breaks out aboard the AS-204 spacecraft, during a pre-launch test
• 1981 - A Vostok-2M rocket launches a Tselina spy satellite
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-6U spy satellite
• 1985 - Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing mission STS-51-C.
• 1989 - An Ariane 2 launches Intelsat 5A F-15, a communication satellite
• 1999 - An Athena-1 launches ROCSAT-1, Taiwan's first satellite.
• 2000 - A Minotaur-I launches a collection of satellites, including JAWSAT, OCSE, OPAL, and FalconSat-1.
• 2013 - An H-IIA rocket launches two satellites for the Japanese Information Gathering Satellite reconnaissance system.