Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/5 May
- 1961 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, and the first man to fly a sub-orbital spaceflight, aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
- 1967 - A Scout A launches the Ariel 3 satellite.
- 1971 - A Titan IIIC launches the DSP-2 satellite.
- 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 488 satellite.
- 1973 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 556 satellite.
- 1976 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 817 satellite.
- 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 907 satellite.
- 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1004 satellite.
- 1982 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 1356 satellite.
- 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1843 satellite.
- 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2019 satellite.
- 1990 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 42 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
- 1996 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-31 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
- 1997 - A Delta II launches several Iridium satellites.
- 1999 - A Delta III fails to launch the Orion 3 satellite.
- 2005 - A PSLV launches the CartoSat-1 satellite.
- 2009 - A Delta II 7920-10C launches the USA-205 satellite.
- 2018 - An Atlas 5 401 launches the InSight lander and the MarCO-A and MarCO-B satellites.