Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/2 April

• 1963 - A Molniya rocket launches the Luna 4 probe.
• 1964 - A Molniya-M launches the Zond 1 probe to Venus.
• 1969 - A Proton-K fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1971 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 403 satellite.
• 1975 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 723 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1347 satellite.
• 1983 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1989 - An Ariane 2 launches the Tele-X satellite.
• 1992 - A Proton-K launches a Gorizont satellite.
• 1993 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2240 satellite.
• 1998 - A Pegasus-XL launches the TRACE satellite.
• 1999 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-41 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1999 - An Ariane 4 launches the INSAT 2E satellite.
• 2003 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1T satellite.
• 2010 - A Soyuz-FG launches the manned Soyuz TMA-18 mission to the ISS.