May 5, 1961

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard  aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket and Orion Capsule

A Marine helicopter picked up Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and his Freedom 7 capsule in the Atlantic Ocean after his first American sub-orbital flight

May 5, 1961

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard  aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket and Orion Capsule

A Marine helicopter picked up Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and his Freedom 7 capsule in the Atlantic Ocean after his first American sub-orbital flight

May 5, 1961

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard  aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket and Orion Capsule

A Marine helicopter picked up Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and his Freedom 7 capsule in the Atlantic Ocean after his first American sub-orbital flight

Jan. 27, 1967

NASA’s Apollo program a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch pad rehearsal test. It would have been launched on February 21, 1967

a fire in the command module killed three astronauts

• Lt. Col. Virgil “Gus” Grissom
• Lt. Col. Edward H. White
• Lt. Cdr. Roger Chafee

Jan. 27, 1967

NASA’s Apollo program a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch pad rehearsal test. It would have been launched on February 21, 1967

a fire in the command module killed three astronauts

• Lt. Col. Virgil “Gus” Grissom
• Lt. Col. Edward H. White
• Lt. Cdr. Roger Chafee

Jan. 27, 1967

NASA’s Apollo program a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch pad rehearsal test. It would have been launched on February 21, 1967

a fire in the command module killed three astronauts

• Lt. Col. Virgil “Gus” Grissom
• Lt. Col. Edward H. White
• Lt. Cdr. Roger Chafee

U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes over Atlantic Ocean
January 28, 1986

• 72 seconds after liftoff
• killing the seven crew members
  – five NASA astronauts
  – one payload specialist
  – and a civilian school teacher.
• the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger

U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes over Atlantic Ocean
January 28, 1986

• 72 seconds after liftoff
• killing the seven crew members
  – five NASA astronauts
  – one payload specialist
  – and a civilian school teacher.
• the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger

U.S. space shuttle Challenger explodes over Atlantic Ocean
January 28, 1986

• 72 seconds after liftoff
• killing the seven crew members
  – five NASA astronauts
  – one payload specialist
  – and a civilian school teacher.
• the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger

51st Anniversary of the Moon Landing
July 20, 1969

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Moon Landing
July 20, 1969

52nd Anniversary of the Moon Landing
July 20, 1969