Portal:Spaceflight/Anniversaries/March

• March 2, 1978 - Vladimír Remek of Czechoslovakia becomes the first non-Soviet, non-American in space.
• March 10, 1972 - Pioneer 10 is launched toward the first flyby of Jupiter.
• March 16, 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.
• March 17, 1958 - Launch of Vanguard 1, the oldest artificial satellite still in orbit.
• March 17, 1992 - Aleksandr Kaleri and Aleksandr Viktorenko become the first cosmonauts to go into space as Russians, after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
• March 18, 1965 - Aleksei Leonov makes the first spacewalk on the Voskhod 2 mission.
• March 22, 1995 - Valeri Polyakov returns to Earth after 437.7 days, setting the space endurance record.
• March 31, 1966 - Luna 10 is launched to become the first lunar orbiter.