Here are entries that are tagged “spaceflight.”
On this date in 1970, three years after N.A.S.A. let three Apollo 1 mission astronauts die,
the Apollo 13 mission was crippled by the explosion of a liquid-oxygen tank after four-fifths of the journey to Earth’s moon.
On this date in 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach Earth’s moon as it crashed onto it.