Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/14 December


 * 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
 * 1966 - A Soyuz fails to launch an unknown satellite.
 * 1966 - A Titan IIIB launches a KH-8 satellite.
 * 1966 - A Delta G launches the Biosatellite 1 satellite.
 * 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 259 satellite.
 * 1971 - A Thorad-Agena launches the NRL Composite 8 satellite.
 * 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 538 satellite.
 * 1975 - A Titan IIIC launches the DSP-5 satellite.
 * 1977 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1978 - A Titan IIIC launches two DSCS satellites.
 * 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1061 satellite.
 * 1982 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1514 spacecraft.
 * 1984 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1901 satellite.
 * 1994 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1T satellite.
 * 1995 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
 * 2002 - An H-IIA launches the ADEOS-2 satellite.
 * 2006 - A Delta II launches the USA-193 satellite.
 * 2007 - A Soyuz-FG launches the Radarsat-2 satellite.
 * 2009 - A Proton-M/DM-2 launches three GLONASS-M satellites; Kosmos 2456, 2457 and 2458.
 * 2009 - A Delta II 7320-10C launches the WISE satellite.
 * 2013 - China's Chang'e 3 lunar lander and the Yutu rover successfully lands at Mare Imbrium on the Moon, becoming the first operational lunar lander since 1976.