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Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, [1] the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module .
Bronto the Dinosaur was published. Its storyline was similar to another 1960s work aimed at children, Pataud, le petit dinosaure . The book was marketed as "educationally sound, paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant said the book "cannot justly make that claim" on the basis of several scientific improbabilities.
Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, [1] they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit and photographed both the Moon and Earth.
January 27 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee are killed in a fire during a plugs-out test for Apollo 1. January 27 – The United States, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty. April 20 – Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon. April 24 – Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.
Apollo 1: February 21, 1967 Launch Complex 34 (planned) Gus Grissom Ed White Roger B. Chaffee: Saturn IB (SA-204) — — — Never launched. On January 27, 1967, a fire in the command module during a launch pad test killed the crew and destroyed the module. This flight was originally designated AS-204, and was renamed to Apollo 1 at the ...
1 March 1966: Probably around -20° to 20° N, 60° to 80° E: First impact on the surface of another planet. Contact lost before atmospheric entry. Venera 4: USSR: 23 October 1967: Estimated near 1] Crushed by atmospheric pressure before impact. Venera 5: USSR: 16 May 1969
It was the site of the Apollo 1 fire, which claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967. The first crewed Apollo launch — Apollo 7 on October 11, 1968 — was the last time LC-34 was used.
Charred remains of the Apollo 1 Command Module, in which Grissom was killed along with Roger B. Chaffee and Ed White. Before Apollo 1's planned launch on February 21, 1967, the Command Module interior caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967, during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy. Astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee ...