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The Apollo 1 Disaster: A Tragic Setback for Space Exploration
How the 27 January 1967 launch-pad fire killed Grissom, White and Chaffee, what investigators found, and the redesign that preceded the later Apollo flights.
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Science, Space and Firsts
Milestones and setbacks in technology, medicine and space.
The 1967 Technology: A Year of Advancements
The ARPANET plan shown in October 1967, the Texas Instruments handheld calculator prototype and the Amana Radarange microwave oven: everyday technology of 1967.
The Discovery of Pulsars
How Cambridge radio astronomers Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish found a regular pulsing radio source in 1967, and why the discovery changed astrophysics.
The First ATM: A 1967 Banking Innovation
The Barclays cash machine opened at Enfield, north London, on 27 June 1967: who invented it, how it worked, and how cash machines spread worldwide.
The First Earth Day: A Call to Action for Environmentalism
The first Earth Day was held on 22 April 1970, not in 1967, and was led by Senator Gaylord Nelson. What environmental concern looked like in 1967, before it.
The First Human Heart Transplant Successfully Performed
Christiaan Barnard's December 1967 operation in Cape Town, the patient Louis Washkansky, and the medical and ethical debates the first heart transplant opened.
The First Issue of Rolling Stone Magazine Published
How Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason launched Rolling Stone in San Francisco in November 1967, with a John Lennon cover and a plan to take rock music seriously.
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