Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/1 December

• 1960 - A Vostok-2 launches the Korabl'-Sputnik 3 spacecraft.
• 1964 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1224 satellite.
• 1987 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1898 satellite.
• 1989 - A Proton launches the Granat spacecraft.
• 1990 - An Atlas E/F launches the USA-68 satellite.
• 1992 - An Ariane 4 launches the Superbird A1 satellite.
• 1994 - An Ariane 4 fails to launch the PanAmSat-3 satellite.
• 2000 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on ISS assembly mission STS-97.
• 2001 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
• 2008 - A Long March 2D launches the Yaogan-4 satellite.
• 2011 - A Long March 3A launches the Beidou-2 IGSO5 satellite for the Chinese Beidou Navigation Satellite System.
• 2013 - A Long March 3B launches Chang'e 3, China's first lunar lander mission, and the Yutu lunar rover.