Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 October

• 1962 - An Atlas-Agena launches the Ranger 5 probe.
• 1963 - A Vostok-2 launches the Kosmos 20 satellite.
• 1967 - A Delta C launches the OSO-4 satellite.
• 1967 - An R-36 launches the Kosmos 183 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 303 satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 525 satellite.
• 1974 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 688 satellite.
• 1974 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 689 satellite.
• 1984 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1606 satellite.
• 1989 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-34 to deploy the Galileo probe bound for Jupiter.
• 1993 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on Spacelab mission STS-58.
• 1999 - A Soyuz-U launches five Globalstar satellites.
• 2001 - A Delta II launches the QuickBird 2 satellite.
• 2003 - A Soyuz-FG launches the manned Soyuz TMA-3 mission.
• 2003 - The last Titan 23G rocket launches a DMSP satellite.
• 2009 - An Atlas V 401 launches a DMSP satellite, USA-210.