9 November 1967
Apollo 4
Oversees the first uncrewed Saturn V test flight.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kennedy Space Center in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Oversees the first uncrewed Saturn V test flight.
Apollo 6 conducts the second uncrewed Saturn V test.
Commands Apollo 8 on the first crewed flight to the Moon.
Serves as command module pilot on Apollo 8.
Serves as lunar module pilot on Apollo 8.
Commands Apollo 9 during the first crewed lunar module test.
Commands the lunar landing dress rehearsal mission.
Launches toward the Moon with Armstrong and Collins.
Launches with Armstrong and Aldrin on Apollo 11.
Commands Apollo 11 as it launches for the Moon.
Directs the Apollo program as Apollo 11 launches.
Commands Apollo 12, the second crewed lunar landing mission.
Continues the mission after lightning strikes the Saturn V shortly after launch and disrupts spacecraft electrical readings.
Is assigned to replace Ken Mattingly as Apollo 13 command module pilot one day before launch after measles exposure concerns.
Is assigned to replace Ken Mattingly as command module pilot shortly before launch.
Launches as lunar module pilot on Apollo 13's planned Fra Mauro landing mission.
Launches with Lovell and Haise as command module pilot of Apollo 13.
Commands Apollo 13 as it launches toward the Moon.
Commands Apollo 14 on a return to lunar landing operations.
Commands Apollo 15 as the first extended J-type lunar exploration mission begins.
Commands Apollo 16, the fifth crewed lunar landing mission.
Commands Apollo 17, the last Apollo lunar landing mission.
Launches in an Apollo command module to repair Skylab.
Flies an Apollo command module to Skylab.
Commands the final Skylab crew launched in Apollo hardware.
Finally reaches orbit as docking module pilot on Apollo-Soyuz.
Commands the American Apollo spacecraft in the joint mission.
Serves as command module pilot on Apollo-Soyuz.
The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Kennedy Space Center for final testing, mating with its probe and launch preparations.
NASA launches Galileo, the first mission designed to orbit Jupiter.
Covey commands Endeavour as the first Hubble servicing mission launches with a crew trained to repair and upgrade the telescope.
Covey commands Endeavour's return to Earth after the successful first Hubble servicing mission.
Bowersox commands Discovery as the second Hubble servicing mission launches to install new instruments and maintain the observatory.
Bowersox commands Discovery's return after Hubble is released as a more capable observatory following Servicing Mission 2.
Brown commands Discovery as an urgent Hubble servicing mission launches after multiple gyroscope failures force the telescope into safe mode.
Altman commands Columbia as Servicing Mission 3B launches to replace Hubble solar arrays and install major new hardware.
Altman commands Columbia's landing after the successful Hubble Servicing Mission 3B.
Altman commands Atlantis as the final Hubble servicing mission launches to repair and modernize the observatory.
Pilots SpaceX Demo-2 to the International Space Station.
Launches on SpaceX Demo-2, the first crewed orbital launch from the United States since 2011.
NASA launches Europa Clipper toward Jupiter to investigate whether Europa has conditions suitable for life.
NASA launches Europa Clipper toward the Jovian system.
Commands Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station.
Provenance
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