Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/20 February


 * 1962 - John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, aboard Mercury-Atlas 6, launched atop an Atlas LV-3B rocket.
 * 1965 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
 * 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-202 satellite.
 * 1968 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-203 satellite.
 * 1975 - An Atlas-Centaur fails to launch the Intelsat 4 F-6 satellite.
 * 1976 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-805 satellite.
 * 1980 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
 * 1983 - A Mu-3S launches the Tenma satellite.
 * 1987 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos-1823 satellite.
 * 1993 - A Mu-3S-II launches the Asuka satellite.
 * 1999 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz TM-29 mission to Mir.
 * 2001 - A Start-1 launches the Odin satellite.
 * 2008 - lands at KSC, completing mission STS-122.