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ON RECORD9MISSIONS
8 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1967 and the latest in 2025.
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1967 · 59 years ago today
Apollo 1
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a fire inside their command module during a launch rehearsal at Cape Kennedy.
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January 27 in spaceflight
9 launches flew on January 27, the earliest of them in 1967, and 8 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on January 27. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1967.
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What happened on January 27
1967
A fire during a launch simulation for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
Apollo 1 ↗1967
Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Apollo program ↗1967
Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
Cold War ↗2011
Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor (chart pictured) with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F).
H1504+65 ↗
Launches on January 27Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
9 launches
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-7SpXSUCCESS
- 2016Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat 29eASASUCCESS
- 2013H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 4 & IGS Optical 5VMHISUCCESS
- 2000Minotaur I | JAWSAT & FalconSat 1OSCSUCCESS
- 1999Athena I | Formosat-1LMTSUCCESS
- 1989Ariane 2 | Intelsat 515ASASUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 72CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 28CCCPSUCCESS
- 1967Saturn IB | Apollo 1 (Failure before launch)NASAFAILURE
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Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's tour of the universe and how we came to understand it. It keeps the science in.
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Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's case for people leaving Earth one day, and an honest look at how hard that would be.
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
A science-fiction novel from the author of The Martian, built around solving one engineering problem after another.
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