


- What exactly happened?
- Who was involved? What roles did they play?
- What was the context or background of this event?
- What was the aftermath of this event?
- What was learned from it?
Examples of important events:
- The founding and earliest days of NASA;
- the Mercury missions; the Apollo 1 tragedy;
- the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon;
- the near-tragedy of Apollo 13;
- the Challenger or Columbia disasters,
- the Voyager missions and/or other unmanned scientific missions;
- the rise of commercial space projects such as Space-X.