Saturn V first flies
1967 · Event
Von Braun's Moon rocket, the most powerful machine yet built, flies its first all-up test as Apollo 4, shaking the press huts at Cape Kennedy.
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- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
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