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Jan. 5, 1972: Nixon OKs ‘Low-Cost’ Space Shuttle
1972: President Richard M. Nixon announces that NASA will develop a space shuttle system, touting its reliability, reusability and low cost. See Also: Photo GalleryNASA: 50 Years of Towering...
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Jan. 27, 1967: 3 Astronauts Die in Launchpad Fire
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....
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Aug. 29, 1965: Long-Distance Calling … Very Long Distance
1965: An astronaut in space holds a conversation with an aquanaut underwater, marking another milestone in human communication. Astronaut Gordon Cooper, orbiting the Earth with Pete Conrad in Gemini 5,...
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