Video: '1964 Voskhod 1 (USSR)'
(Monday, October 12, 1964, 07:30:01 UTC) — The Soviet Union launched a Voskhod space capsule this morning with a three-man crew on the first mission involving more than one crew member. The flight lasted just over 24 hours.
Video: 'STS 41-G: Mission Highlights' (launch at 6:45)
(Friday, October 5, 1984, 11:03:00 UTC) — The space shuttle Challenger blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center today on an 8-day mission; members of the crew included Kathryn D. Sullivan, who became the first American woman to walk in space, and Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut.
Video: 'Ranger VII Photographs of the Moon 1964 NASA JPL First Successful US Lunar Spacecraft'
(Friday, July 31, 1964, 16:50:00 UTC) — Ranger 7 radioed to earth today the first close-up pictures of the moon — a historic collection of 4,000 pictures one thousand times as clear as anything ever seen through earth-bound telescopes.
Video: 'Radio News Coverage: Skylab 3 Part 6' (splashdown coverage at 35:37)
(Friday, February 8, 11:16:53 a.m. EDT; part of NASA’s Skylab program) — The last three-man crew of the Skylab space station, consisting of Jerry Carr, Bill Pogue and Edward Gibson, returned to Earth today after spending 84 days in space, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean some 176 miles southwest of San Diego. Skylab remained in orbit another five years before plunging to its destruction in 1979.
Video: 'Space Shuttle STS-41-B (STS-10) Post Flight Press Conference Film pt2-2 1984 NASA'
(Tuesday, February 7, 1984) — Space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk today, which lasted nearly six hours.
Video: 'STS-60 launch & landing (2-3-94)'
(Thursday, February 3, 1994, 7:10:00 a.m. EST) — The space shuttle Discovery lifted off this morning, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft.
Video: 'Universal News Volume 37, Release 10, February 3, 1964' (Feb. 2, 1964, at 1:26)
(Sunday, February 2, 1964, 4:24:32 a.m. EST) — Ranger 6, a lunar probe launched by NASA, crashed onto the surface of the moon today as planned, but failed to send back any TV images.
Video: 'Universal News Volume 37, Release 10, February 3, 1964' (Jan. 30, 1964, at 0:45)
(Thursday, January 30, 1964, 10:49 a.m. EST) — The United States today launched Ranger 6, an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras that crash-landed on the moon, but failed to send back images.
Video: 'Skylab 4 Part 2 CBS News Coverage of Launch' (launch at 10:19)
(Friday, November 16, 1973, 9:01:23 EST; part of NASA’s Skylab program) — Three rookie American astronauts rocketed safely into orbit this morning to start man’s longest space voyage, an 84-day “holiday cruise” aboard the Skylab space station. It was the third and final manned mission to the station.
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy's 63rd News Conference - October 31, 1963'
(Thursday, October 31, 1963, 4:00 p.m. EDT; during the Cold War and Space Race) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy told a news conference today that he “would not make any bets at all upon Soviet intentions” despite Premier Khrushchev’s statement that his country would not race to the moon but, rather, would profit from American experience in that field. Continue reading Kennedy questions whether Soviet Union abandoning moon race 50 years ago this hour (1963)
