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: 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.
