Last Updated on 3 January 2024
December events from the history of space flight
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| 2 | 1993 – Space Shuttle Endeavor makes the first servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope |
| 3 | 1973 – Pioneer 10 becomes first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter |
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| 7 | 1995 – Galileo probe begins transmitting data on Jupiter |
| 8 | 2010 – SpaceX, a private company, launches a spacecraft into orbit and returns it to earth safely. It was the first non-government organization to accomplish this. |
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| 11 | 1972 – Eugene Cernan and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt become the last men to walk on the moon |
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| 14 | 1962 – Mariner 2 returns first data from another planet (Venus) |
| 15 | 1970 – Soviet Venera 7 becomes the first probe to land on Venus |
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| 21 | 1968 – Apollo 8 launched, and later her crewmembers became the first men to orbit the moon 2015 – Falcon 9 is first rocket stage to return to its launch site |
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| 24 | 2013 – International Space Station has a rare spacewalk to fix an equipment cooling system |
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