Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/15 December


 * 1960 - An Atlas-Able fails to launch the Pioneer P-31 spacecraft.
 * 1964 - A Scout X-4 launches the San Marco 1 satellite.
 * 1965 - A Titan II launches the manned Gemini 6A mission to conduct the first rendezvous between two manned spacecraft in orbit, with Gemini 7.
 * 1968 - A Delta N launches the ESSA-8 satellite.
 * 1970 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 386 satellite.
 * 1971 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 465 satellite.
 * 1976 - A Proton-K launches two TKS spacecraft.
 * 1976 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 883 satellite.
 * 1977 - A Delta 2914 launches the Sakura satellite.
 * 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1062 satellite.
 * 1981 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Intelsat 503 satellite.
 * 1983 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1515 satellite.
 * 1984 - A Proton launches the Vega-1 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1902 satellite.
 * 1989 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
 * 1995 - An Atlas IIA launches the Galaxy 3R satellite.
 * 1997 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2348 satellite.
 * 2008 - A Long March 4B launches the Yaogan 5 satellite.
 * 2009 - A Long March 4C launches the Yaogan 8 and Xi Wang 1 satellites.
 * 2010 - A Soyuz-FG launches Soyuz TMA-20, carrying three of the Expedition 26 crew to the ISS.