Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
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NASA tested the Saturn I launch vehicle with a boilerplate Apollo spacecraft for the first time.
The Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9 was launched into orbit.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
North Korea launched the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 reconnaissance satellite atop an Unha rocket.
