On December 24, 1979, the Ariane launch vehicle made its first flight from French Guyana. During 30 years of service, a total of 277 payloads have been delivered into geostationary transfer orbit, low Earth orbit, Sun-synchronous orbit and on Earth escape trajectories for 73 customers.
Soyuz TMA-17 arrived at the International Space Station on December 23, 2009.
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Soyuz TMA-17 was launched on December 20, 2009. TMA-17 is a manned space flight to the International Space Station, which carried three members of the ISS Expedition 22 to the station: Oleg Kotov, Timothy Creamer, and Soichi Noguchi.
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On December 14, 2009, WISE was launched aboard a Delta II launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE is a NASA-funded scientific research project that will provide an all-sky survey in the mid-infrared wavelength range.
Expedition 21 crew landed in Kazakhstan on December 1, 2009. The crew was met by the Russian Search and Recovery Forces in all-terrain vehicles.
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Soyuz TMA-15 and its crew left the International Space Station on November 30, 2009. Onboard the spacecraft were Commander Roman Romanenko, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, and CSA astronaut Robert Thirsk.
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