1960s Timeline

Sept. 18, 1962 - Here is a 30-minute documentary film directed by Michael R. Lawrence about astronaut John Glenn. #NASA #Space #1960s...

Sept. 17, 1962 - Nine new astronauts, candidates for the lunar space flight, made their debuts in Houston today. Two civilians were among...

Sept. 14, 1962 - Neil Armstrong, a 31-year-old civilian who has been flying X-15 research planes, was reported today to be one of 9 new...

Sept. 12, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy’s remarks today to employees of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation at Lambert Field in St....

Sept. 12, 1962 - Here is a recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks at the Rich Building of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in...

Aug. 24, 1962 - The first trip to the moon will be a team effort, not a one-man job, Lieut. Col. Yuri A. Gagarin (pictured lower right)...

Aug. 15, 1962 - Soviet scientists, exultant over the prolonged orbital flights and safe return to earth of Vostoks III and IV, looked...

Aug. 14, 1962 - Maj. Andrian G. Nikolayev and Lieut. Col. Pavel R. Popovich, pilots of the Soviet spaceships Vostok III and Vostok IV,...

Aug. 13, 1962 - Leaders of this country’s space program are still optimistic about chances of being the first to land astronauts on the...

Aug. 13, 1962 - Two Soviet astronauts continued to circle the earth this morning on their “group flight” in space. Maj. Andrian G....

Aug. 12, 1962 - Former President Harry S. Truman (pictured right Thursday with former President Herbert Hoover at the dedication of the...

Aug. 12, 1962 - President Kennedy extended his congratulations to the Soviet Union today for its latest achievements in space. In a...

🚨Aug. 12, 1962 - Two Soviet spacecraft hurtled around the earth this morning in adjacent orbits while their pilots conversed with each...

Aug. 11, 1962 - The Soviet Union launched its third astronaut into space today on what was expected to be a prolonged orbital flight....

July 23, 1962 - This afternoon, Walter Cronkite of CBS entered NBC’s studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza to co-host this historic Telstar ...

June 27, 1962 - NASA announced today that the next man-in-space flight would be a six-orbit journey with Comdr. Walter M. Schirra Jr....

June 22, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., for the first time since he joined Project Mercury three years ago, is going on a camping...

May 30, 1962 - Boulder gave Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter one of the greatest parades in Colorado history today to wind up his triumphal...

May 27, 1962 - Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter returned to the starting point of his space journey at Cape Canaveral today and was honored...

May 26, 1962 - Pravda published today a dramatic account of Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter’s troubles in space but praised the American...