Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/19 April

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• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches the AFP-206 satellite.
• 1971 - A Proton-K launches Salyut 1, the world's first space station.
• 1972 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1973 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-554 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kopernik 500 satellite.
• 1975 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Aryabhata satellite.
• 1982 - A Proton-K launches the Salyut 7 space station.
• 1983 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1453 satellite.
• 1984 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1549 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1647 satellite.
• 1992 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress M-12 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 2000 - An Ariane 4 launches the Galaxy 4R satellite.
• 2001 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-100 to resupply the International Space Station.
• 2004 - A Soyuz-FG launches the manned Soyuz TMA-4 mission to the International Space Station.
• 2008 - Soyuz TMA-11 lands in Russia, following a ballistic re-entry.