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 ...

Fifty-seven years ago, test pilot Bruce Peterson survived one of aviation's most dramatic crashes, an incident so spectacular ...

56 years ago today, NASA’s Surveyor 6 lunar lander made history by conducting the first liftoff from the Moon’s surface as it used its engines to briefly liftoff from the Moon’s surface to a height of ...

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.

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 ...

On April 10, 1982, India launched its first multipurpose satellite, INSAT-1. This satellite was used for both communications and weather forecasting.

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 ...

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 ...