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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) initiated the Apollo Project, designed to land humans on the moon, in 1963. On January 20, 1967, while preparing for the first flight of Apollo 1, its crew - Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee - were killed in a fire on the launch pad. Later Apollo missions would be successful, including the first landing on the moon, with Apollo 11 in 1969.
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After the success of landing a man on the Moon, meeting JFK's challenge, NASA confronted the near disaster of Apollo 13, which was avoided by human intelligence and ingenuity. After four more successful lunar landings, NASA re-engineered the program. The STS Shuttle was used in the construction of the International Space Station, but disaster struck when Challenger exploded, killing the crew, including teacher Christa McAuliffe. A redesigned shuttle,...
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On April 4th, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. As news of his assassination spread, American cities were engulfed in chaos and fear. Urban areas erupted in riots and fires burned out of control. Dozens of people were killed. Meanwhile, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was in Indianapolis, where he was scheduled to make a campaign appearance in an African-American neighborhood....