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At Mach 6.7 and 4,520 mph, the X-15 set the crewed aircraft speed record in 1967 — 59 years later, no one has flown faster
On October 3, 1967, U.S. Air Force pilot William “Pete” Knight flew the X-15A-2 to 4,520 miles per hour — Mach 6.7 — setting ...
Usually in Beyond Apollo I devote most of my attention to technical documents and their historical context. I do not normally focus on press conference transcripts. The 26 January 1967 NASA ...
1967: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed on the launch pad when a flash fire engulfs their command module during testing for the first Apollo/Saturn mission. They are the first U.S.
This week in 1967 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration family suffered its first fatalities as the crew of Apollo 1 was killed in a training exercise at the Kennedy Space Center. On Jan.
On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom grabbed a lemon off a tree in his backyard. His wife asked what he planned to do with it. “I’m going to hang it on that ...
This image provided a new perspective on our Home: for the first time humans were able to admire a color photograph of their whole planet floating in the dark void of space. The photographic mission ...
It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module came a panicked voice saying: "Fire in the cockpit." Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronauts who were ...
A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...
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