The year 1967 in spaceflight saw the most orbital launches of the 20th century and more than any other year until 2021, including that of the first

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n satellite,

WRESAT WRESAT, or Weapons Research Establishment Satellite, was Australia's first satellite. It was named after its designer, the Weapons Research Establishment. WRESAT was launched on 29 November 1967 using a modified American Redstone rocket with two ...

, which was launched from the

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atop an American

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rocket. The United States

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catalogued 172 spacecraft placed into orbit by launches which occurred in 1967. The year saw both setbacks and advances for the

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Apollo program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which Moon landing, landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in sp ...

me. Three astronauts; Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee, were killed in a fire aboard the AS-204 spacecraft at

Cape Kennedy Cape Canaveral () is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. Officially Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River. It i ...

Launch Complex 34 on 27 January whilst rehearsing the launch. On 20 October the

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rocket made its

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Orbital Launches

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December

Suborbital launches

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Deep Space Rendezvous

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