Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 March

• 1958 - A Vanguard rocket launches the Vanguard I satellite.
• 1966 - A Vostok-2 rocket launches the Kosmos 112 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 272 satellite.
• 1970 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1972 - A Titan 24B launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 898 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 995 satellite.
• 1980 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1168 satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1259 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1343 satellite.
• 1988 - A Vostok-2M launches the IRS-1 satellite.
• 1988 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1992 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the manned Soyuz TM-14 mission to Mir.
• 1994 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2274 satellite.
• 2002 - A Rokot launches the GRACE satellite.
• 2009 - A Rokot launches the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer.
• 2009 - Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station during mission STS-119.