Manned Spaceflights and X-15 Flights - 1967

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Flight Launch Landing Name Country   Parameters
Apollo 1
(CSM-012)
January 27, 1967
Launch Pad 34
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Commander: Virgil "Gus" Grissom
(NASA Group 1)
USA M Launch Pad Fire
January 27, 1967
Command Module Pilot: Edward White
(NASA Group 2)
USA M
Lunar Module Pilot: Roger Chaffee
(NASA Group 3)
USA M
1st Backup Crew: Walter Schirra USA M
1st Backup Crew: Donn Eisele USA M
1st Backup Crew: Walter Cunningham USA M
Launch Vehicle
Saturn IB #AS-204
The crew died in a fire during
a preflight test one month before launch.
2nd Backup Crew: James McDivitt USA M Scheduled Launch
February 21, 1967
2nd Backup Crew: David Scott USA M
2nd Backup Crew: Russell Schweickart USA M

X-15 Flight 177
(X-15A #1) (Flight 70)
March 22, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: Michael Adams
(3rd X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 40.57 km
Speed: 6,150 kph

Soyuz 1
(7K-OK(A) #4)
April 23, 1967
(00:35 GMT)
April 24, 1967
(03:22 GMT)
Pilot: Vladimir Komarov
(2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 1)
USSR M Perigee: 203.1 km
Apogee: 221.1 km
Inclination: 51.72°
18 orbits
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Crashed into a field
near Orenburg

(~51° 13' N, ~57° 24' E)
Backup: Yuri Gagarin USSR M Time
26 hours
47 minutes

X-15 Flight 178
(X-15A #3) (Flight 58)
April 26, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Dana
(7th X-15 Flight) (NASA X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 16.28 km
Speed: 1,871 kph

X-15 Flight 179
(X-15A #1) (Flight 71)
April 28, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: Michael Adams
(4th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 50.9 km
Speed: 5,985 kph

X-15 Flight 180
(X-15A-2) (Flight 20)
May 8, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Knight
(9th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 29.75 km
Speed: 5,138 kph

X-15 Flight 181
(X-15A #3) (Flight 59)
May 17, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Dana
(8th X-15 Flight) (NASA X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 21.67 km
Speed: 5,112 kph

X-15 Flight 182
(X-15A #1) (Flight 72)
June 15, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: Michael Adams
(5th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 69.89 km
Speed: 5,802 kph

X-15 Flight 183
(X-15A #3) (Flight 60)
June 22, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Dana
(9th X-15 Flight) (NASA X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 25.05 km
Speed: 5,810 kph

X-15 Flight 184
(X-15A #1) (Flight 73)
June 29, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Knight
(10th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 52.73 km
Speed: 4,618 kph

X-15 Flight 185
(X-15A #3) (Flight 61)
July 20, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Dana
(10th X-15 Flight) (NASA X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 25.72 km
Speed: 5,942 kph

X-15 Flight 186
(X-15A-2) (Flight 21)
August 21, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Knight
(11th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 27.74 km
Speed: 5,419 kph

X-15 Flight 187
(X-15A #3) (Flight 62)
August 25, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: Michael Adams
(6th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 25.72 km
Speed: 5,012 kph

X-15 Flight 188
(X-15A-2) (Flight 22)
October 3, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Knight
(12th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 31.12 km
Speed: 7,273 kph

X-15 Flight 189
(X-15A #3) (Flight 63)
October 4, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Dana
(11th X-15 Flight) (NASA X-15 Pilot)
USA M Altitude: 76.53 km
Speed: 7,270 kph

X-15 Flight 190
(X-15A #3) (Flight 64)
October 17, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: William Knight
(13th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
(1st Suborbital Flight - USAF Definition)
USA M Altitude: 85.5 km
Speed: 6,204 kph

X-15 Flight 191
(X-15A #3) (Flight 65)
November 15, 1967
X-15 Flight Range, Utah to California
Pilot: Michael Adams
(7th X-15 Flight) (USAF X-15 Pilot)
(1st Suborbital Flight - USAF Definition)
USA M Altitude: 81.08 km
Speed: 5,744 kph
The X-15 entered an unrecoverable spin during
reentry and crashed. The pilot was killed.

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