Astronomy and Space Exploration
- January 27 - Apollo 1 destroyed in a fire on the launch pad.
- January 27 - The 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 working with Antony Hewish at the University of Cambridge, for which Hewish is awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974. These rapidly pulsating radio sources are explained a year later as rotating neutron stars.
- NRAO builds the 36-foot Radio Telescope, later to become the ARO 12m Radio Telescope.
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