Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/8 September
- 1967 - An Atlas-Centaur upper stage launches the Surveyor 5 lunar lander.
- 1970 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 361 satellite.
- 1973 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 585 satellite.
- 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1406 satellite.
- 1983 - A Delta 3924 launches the Satcom 2R satellite.
- 1984 - An Atlas E/F launches a GPS satellite.
- 1988 - An Ariane 3 launches the Gstar 3 and SBS-5 satellites.
- 1996 - An Atlas IIA launches the GE-1 satellite.
- 1998 - A Delta II launches five Iridium satellites.
- 2000 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-106 to the ISS.
- 2001 - An Atlas IIAS launches two NOSS satellites.
- 2004 - A Long March 4B launches two SJ-6 satellites.
- 2004 - The attempted mid-air retrieval of the Genesis return capsule fails when its parachute fails to deploy.
- 2005 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-54 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
- 2005 - A Proton-M launches the Anik F1R satellite.
- 2009 - An Atlas V 401 launches the USA-207 military communication satellite.
- 2010 - A Rokot launches the Kosmos 2467, Kosmos 2468 and one Gonets-M satellite.