Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/20 January


 * 1969 - A Proton-K fails to launch an unmanned Soyuz spacecraft, due to a second stage engine failure.
 * 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches a DS-U2-MY scientific satellite.
 * 1971 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor weather satellite.
 * 1972 - A Titan IIID launches two spy satellites, a KH-9 and an SSF.
 * 1973 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Tselina spy satellite.
 * 1976 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite.
 * 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-2M spy satellite.
 * 1977 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Tsyklon navigation satellite.
 * 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress 1 spacecraft to resupply Salyut 6.
 * 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar spy satellite.
 * 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-6U spy satellite.
 * 1983 - A Vostok-2M launches a Tselina spy satellite.
 * 1988 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 34 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
 * 1990 - lands at the Edwards Air Force Base, completing STS-32.
 * 1994 - A Proton-K/DM-2M launches the Gals communication satellite.
 * 1996 - lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing STS-72.
 * 2005 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Parus navigation satellite, and a student experiment.
 * 2011 - The first Zenit-3F rocket launches the Elektro-L No.1 meteorology satellite.
 * 2011 - A Delta IV Heavy rocket launches the USA-224 optical reconnaissance satellite.
 * 2012 - A Delta IV rocket launches the USA-233 military communication satellite for the Wideband Global SATCOM system.