Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/20 February

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• 1962 - John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, aboard Mercury-Atlas 6, launched atop an Atlas D 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 - Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at KSC, completing mission STS-122.