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Trajan Roman emperor

Prime crew members for the first manned Apollo 1 space flight practice water egress procedures in a swimming pool

Looking Back At January 27

Looking Back At January 27
Marcus Ulpius Trajanus became the Roman emperor after his adoptive father, Nerva, died.
A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent.
Thomas Edison received a patent for his incandescent lamp.
Astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a fire during a preflight test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft.
The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed the Outer Space Treaty.

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