Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/8 August

• 1966 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 127 satellite.
• 1967 - An R-36 launches the Kosmos 171 satellite.
• 1968 - A Scout B launches the Explorer 39 and Explorer 40 satellite.
• 1971 - An R-36-O launches the Kosmos 433 satellite.
• 1978 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe.
• 1984 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1589 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1673 satellite.
• 1985 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1674 satellite.
• 1985 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
• 1988 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1962 satellite.
• 1989 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on mission STS-28 to deploy the USA-40 and USA-41 satellites.
• 1989 - An Ariane 4 launches the TV-SAT 2 and Hipparcos satellites.
• 1990 - A Tsyklon-3 launches six Strela satellites.
• 1996 - An Ariane 4 launches the Italsat 2 and Telecom 2D satellites.
• 1997 - An Ariane 4 launches the Panamsat-6 satellite.
• 2001 - A Delta II launches the Genesis probe.
• 2003 - A Zenit-3SL launches the Echostar IX satellite.
• 2007 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on ISS assembly mission STS-118.
• 2013 - A Delta IV launches USA-244 for the Wideband Global SATCOM system.