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1967 in science
The year 1967 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
See also: 1966 in science, other events of 1967, 1968 in science, and the list of years in science.
Astronomy and space exploration
- January 27 - Apollo 1 destroyed in a fire on the launch pad.
- January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
- April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
- April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.
- October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
- November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- November - Pulsars discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. These are rapidly pulsating radio sources and the discovery was good for a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 (Hewish A.S. et al. 1968, Nature 217, 709-713). A year later pulsars are explained as rotating neutron stars.
Awards
Deaths
- January 27 - Edward White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, Apollo 1 crew
- February 18 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist
- April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller geneticist (b. 1890)
- April 24 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut on Soyuz 1
- Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamin
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