1967 in science

The year 1967 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy and space exploration
2 Awards
3 Deaths

Astronomy and space exploration

January 27 - Apollo 1 destroyed in a fire on the launch pad.
January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed during the landing of Soyuz 1.
October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
November - Pulsars discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. These are rapidly pulsating radio sources and the discovery was good for a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 (Hewish A.S. et al. 1968, Nature 217, 709-713). A year later pulsars are explained as rotating neutron stars.