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2006 in spaceflight

2006 in spaceflight
Atlas V 551 roars into blue sky.jpg
Launch of New Horizons, the first probe to Pluto, on the first Atlas V 551
Orbital launches
First 19 January
Last 27 December
Total 67
Successes 62
Failures 5
Partial failures 0
Catalogued 63
National firsts
Satellite  Kazakhstan
Space traveller  Brazil
 Iran
 Sweden
Rockets
Maiden flights Atlas V 411
Atlas V 551
Long March 4B-II (4C)
Falcon 1
H-IIA 204
Soyuz-2.1b
Retirements Tsyklon-2
M-V
Manned flights
Orbital 5
Total travellers 26


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