Mar 24Lady Bird Johnson Visits AlabamaMar. 24, 1964 - Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson spent a day full of both future and past at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.,...
Dec 16, 2023Col. Yeager Suffers Burns after Climbing to Near-Record AltitudeDec. 16, 1963 - Colonel Charles Yeager of the U.S. Air Force, who rode a spinning Lockheed NF-104A space training plane from 90,000 to...
Nov 21, 2023President Kennedy Visits San Antonio, Flies to HoustonNov. 21, 1963 - President Kennedy mixed a strong defense of his space program with some old-fashioned, earthbound politics today as he...
Oct 26, 2023Khrushchev: No Plans To Put Soviet Astronaut on MoonOct. 26, 1963 - Premier Khrushchev has declared that the Soviet Union would not race the U.S. to put a man on the moon. The statement...