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 * December 15, 2010: The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft was launched on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 19:09 UTC. The crew of three on board will arrive at the International Space Station two days later to start their six month mission on board the space station.
 * December 8, 2010: A Falcon 9 rocket launched the first Dragon spacecraft on the first demonstration flight of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program at 15:43 UTC. After orbiting the Earth for more than two hours to test onboard systems, the Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the Californian coast.
 * December 6, 2010: JAXA's planetary probe Akatsuki failed to enter Venus orbit after an attempted orbit insertion burn at 23:49 UTC.
 * December 5, 2010: A Proton-M rocket failed to launch three GLONASS navigation satellites for the Russian government minutes after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:25 UTC.
 * December 3, 2010: The Boeing X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle has landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 09:16 UTC, completing a 225-day mission.
 * December 3, 2010: NASA decided to delay the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission to no earlier than February 3, 2011, to conduct throughout inspection and tests to determine the cause of cracks that appeared on the stringers of the external tank.
 * November 26, 2010: An Ariane 5 rocket has launched at 18:39 UTC from the Guiana Space Center, carrying the Intelsat 17 and Hylas 1 satellites into orbit.
 * November 26, 2010: A Long March 3A rocket has launched the Zhongxing 20A military communications satellite into space. Launch occurred at 16:09 UTC from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
 * November 26, 2010: Three crew members of the International Space Station's Expedition 25 has returned to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. Landing occurred at 04:46 UTC in Kazakhstan.
 * November 21, 2010: A Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the USA-223 spacecraft for the National Reconnaissance Office into space. The launch occurred at 22:58 UTC from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
 * November 19, 2010: A Minotaur IV rocket launched seven satellites on the STP-S26 mission for the United States Air Force. The launched occurred at 01:25 UTC from Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska.