Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/7 August

• 1959 - A Thor-Able launches Explorer 6, the first satellite to transmit images of Earth back from orbit.
• 1967 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1968 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1969 - A Proton-K launches the Zond 7 circumlunar Earth return mission.
• 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Interkosmos-3 satellite.
• 1970 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 355 satellite.
• 1971 - An Atlas E/F launches the OV1-20 and 21 satellites.
• 1974 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 671 satellite.
• 1976 - Viking 2 reaches Mars and enters areocentric orbit.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress 3 spacecraft to resupply Salyut 6.
• 1981 - A Vostok-2M launches the Interkosmos-22 (Bulgaria-1300) satellite.
• 1984 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1588 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1672 satellite.
• 1997 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-85 to conduct experiments in low Earth orbit.