2011 – STS-134 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. Mission duration 15 days.
1997 – STS-84 docks with Mir for the 6th STS-MIR mission. It is
Jerry Linenger‘s 122nd day as a member of the Mir crew.
1997 – Images from around the world of Comet Hale-Bopp are posted online. The image to the right is one is taken by David Renneke at 9:32 pm CDT at a rural Milan, Italy site using a Meade 8″ telescope and an SBIG ST-6 CCD camera.
1985 – The discovery of the ozone hole was announced in a paper published in the scientific journal Nature. This publication by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin) reported the substantial thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica. The concern for human health led to the Montreal Protocol.
1969 – Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus
1963 – Landing of Mercury MA-9
Birthdays
1954 – 
Dr Dafydd Williams born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. CSA Astronaut. Selection: 1992 CSA Group, NASA Group 15 (1994). Time in space: 28 days, 15 hours, 47 minutes. EVAs 3, 17 hours, 47 minutes.
1945 – Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. born in Cass, Michigan, USA is a retired astronaut and aerospace executive. Selection: NASA Group 8 (1978). Time in space: 22d 5h 51m. Missions: STS-9, STS-28, STS-61-B.
1925 – 
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, born in Nashville, Tennesee, USA. She is known as the mother of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first female executive at NASA as the chief of astronomy. The Roman Space Telescope (RST) is scheduled to launch in May 2027 is named after her. (d. 25 December 2018)
