Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/9 January

• 1970 - A Voskhod rocket launches a Zenit-2M spy satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-6U spy satellite.
• 1981 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 communication satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar-4K1 spy satellite.
• 1986 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela communication satellites.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar-4K1 spy satellite.
• 1990 - The Space Shuttle Columbia launches on mission STS-32 to deploy Leasat-5 and collect the LDEF.
• 1998 - The crew of Mir perform an EVA to repair the Kvant-2 airlock.
• 2001 - A Long March 2F launches Shenzhou 2, a test mission for the Shenzhou spacecraft.
• 2012 - A Long March 4B launches the Ziyuan 3 and VesselSat-2 satellites.
• 2014 - Cygnus CRS Orb-1, a Cygnus spacecraft flying its first commercial resupply mission for the ISS, is launched on an Antares rocket.