Apollo 1 fire
1967 · Event
Grissom, White and Chaffee die in a launchpad fire during a routine test; the redesign that follows arguably saves the programme that reaches the Moon.
On these timelines: The Space Race, Spaceflight, Master, USA
More from The Space Race
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Yuri Gagarin: first human in space (1961)
- Apollo program announcement (1961)
- Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech (1962)
- 'One small step': the Moonwalk broadcast (1969)
- Apollo 17 leaves the Moon (1972)
- Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous in orbit (1965)
Around 1967
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin) (1959)