Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/21 December


 * 1961 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
 * 1963 - A Delta B launches the Tiros 8 satellite.
 * 1963 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
 * 1964 - A Delta C launches the Explorer 26 spacecraft.
 * 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches the QUILL satellite.
 * 1965 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 101 satellite.
 * 1965 - A Titan IIIC launches the OV2-3, LES-3 and LES-4 satellites.
 * 1966 - A Molniya-M launches the Luna 13 spacecraft.
 * 1966 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 137 satellite.
 * 1968 - A Saturn V launches Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon.
 * 1972 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 539 satellite.
 * 1972 - A Titan 24B launches a KH-8A satellite.
 * 1973 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 625 satellite.
 * 1974 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
 * 1977 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 970 satellite.
 * 1982 - An Atlas E/F launches a DMSP satellite.
 * 1983 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
 * 1984 - A Proton launches the Vega 2 spacecraft.
 * 1987 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the manned Soyuz TM-4 mission.
 * 1987 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1903 satellite.
 * 1990 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2113 satellite.
 * 1992 - A Long March 2E fails to launch the Optus B2 satellite.
 * 1999 - A Taurus launches the KOMPSAT and ACRIMSAT satellites.
 * 2001 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 2383 satellite.
 * 2003 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIR-10 satellite.
 * 2004 - The first Delta-IVH fails to place a Demosat into its target orbit.
 * 2005 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-55 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
 * 2005 - A Kosmos-3M launches Kosmos 2416 and a Gonets satellite.
 * 2005 - An Ariane 5 launches the Insat 4A and MSG-2 satellites.
 * 2007 - An Ariane 5 launches the Rascom-QAF 1 and Horizons-2 satellites.
 * 2011 - A Soyuz-FG launches Soyuz TMA-03M, carrying three of the Expedition 30 crew to the ISS.