Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/3 July

• 1969 - An N1 explodes during a test flight, destroying its launch pad.
• 1974 - A Soyuz launches the manned Soyuz 14 mission.
• 1975 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 748 satellite.
• 1984 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1581 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1665 satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1992 - A Scout G-1 launches the SAMPEX satellite.
• 1994 - A Long March 2D launches a FSW-2 satellite.
• 1996 - A Titan IV launches an SDS satellite.
• 1996 - A Long March 3 launches the Apstar-1A satellite.
• 1998 - A M-V launches the Nozomi probe, making Japan the third nation to launch a planetary mission.
• 2002 - A Delta II launches CONTOUR, a space probe that failed shortly after launch.