Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1967 - NASA's History Office

Appendix B
CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR NASA LAUNCHINGS
JANUARY 1, 1967, THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 1967
This chronology of major NASA launchings in 1967 is intended to provide
an accurate and ready historical reference, one compiling and verifying
information previously scattered over several sources. It includes launchings
of all rocket vehicles larger than sounding rockets launched either by NASA
or under “NASA direction” (e.g., NASA provided vehicles, launch facilities,
and performed the launches for ComSatCorp’s three INTELSAT II launches
in 1967). NASA sounding rocket launches are published annually by the
Goddard Space Flight Center Historian in Goddard Projects Summary:
Satellites and Sounding Rockets.
An attempt has been made to classify the performance of both the launch
vehicle and the payload and to summarize total results in terms of primary
mission. Three categories have been used for evaluating vehicle performance
and mission results-successful (S) , partially successful (P) , and unsuccess-
ful (V) . A fourth category, unknown (Unk) , has been provided for payloads
where vehicle malfunctions did not give the payload a chance to exercise
its main experiments. These divisions are necessarily arbitrary, since many
of the results cannot be neatly categorized. Also they ignore the fact that a
great deal is learned from missions that may have been classified as unsuc-
cessful.
Date of launch is referenced to local time at the launch site. Sources used
were all open ones, verified where in doubt from the project offim in NASA
Headquarters and from the NASA Centers. For further information on each
item, see Appendix A of this volume and the entries in the main chronology
as referenced in the index. Prepared January 1968 by Dr. Frank W. Ander-
son, Jr., Deputy NASA Historian (EH) .
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