Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/16 June

• 1961 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 25 satellite.
• 1963 - A Scout X-3 launches the Transit VA-3 satellite.
• 1963 - A Vostok-K launches Vostok 6, with cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who becomes the first woman to fly in space.
• 1966 - A Titan IIIC launches some IDCSP satellites.
• 1967 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 166 satellite.
• 1967 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1976 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 833 satellite.
• 1977 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 917 satellite.
• 1977 - A Delta 2914 launches the GOES 2 satellite.
• 1978 - A Delta 2914 launches the GOES 3 satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1276 satellite.
• 1983 - An Ariane 1 launches the ECS-1 satellite.
• 1987 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela satellites.
• 1988 - A Scout G-1 launches the Nova-2 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2028 satellite.
• 1993 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2251 satellite.
• 2001 - A Proton-K launches the Astra 2C satellite.
• 2004 - A Proton-M launches the Intelsat 10-02 satellite.
• 2005 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-53 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
• 2012 - The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, is launched on a Long March 2F rocket on the first manned mission to the Tiangong 1 space station.