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On February 28, 1966, a NASA Northrop T-38 Talon crashed at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, killing two Project Gemini astronauts, Elliot See and Charles Bassett. The aircraft, piloted by See, crashed into the McDonnell Aircraft building where their Gemini 9 spacecraft was being assembled. The weather was poor with rain, snow, fog, and ...
Training jet crash: 28 February 1966: Gemini 9: Elliot See Charles Bassett: See and Bassett attempted to land their T-38 at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, in bad weather, and crashed into the adjacent McDonnell Aircraft factory, where they were going for simulator training for their Gemini 9 flight. [25] [26] Fire during spacecraft test ...
A Gemini-Titan launch vehicle lifts Gemini 8 into orbit, March 16, 1966. The Gemini spacecraft was launched into an 86-by-147-nautical-mile (159 by 272 km) orbit by a modified Titan II on March 16, 1966 (coincidentally the 40th anniversary of the launch of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket by Dr. Robert H. Goddard), at 10:41:02 a.m. EST ...
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The helicopter crashed into the Indian River at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Cernan nearly drowned because he was not wearing a life vest and received some second-degree burns on his face and singed hair. [24] According to official reports at the time, the crash was the result of mechanical failure.
An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. The world was given only seven hours warning that it was being approached by ...
NASA says it's investigating whether an object that crashed into the roof of a home in southwest Florida last month came from the international space station. Workers for the space agency picked ...
At 8:15 p.m. local time, Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 from Hong Kong crashed while attempting to land in a fog at Tokyo International Airport. Coming in too low, the DC-8 struck one of the runway approach lights, then hit other lights before hitting a seawall and bursting into flames, killing 64 of the 72 people on board. A plane taking ...