January 27th The crew of Apollo 1 died tragically in a fire that kills both the crew members and NASA's chance for an early manned Apollo flight. March 10th-17th Despite enormous risk to the crew, the first Soviet Zond spacecraft on a UR-500 Proton rocket, successfully carried Cosmonauts Alexi Leonov and Mackarov Grigoriyevich on the first manned circumlunar flight. The mission was a near disaster however with the parachute almost getting tangled on re-entry. The planned Soyuz 1 and 2 docking mission is delayed until the problem can be resolved.Space suits were also added to all further flights to prevent another near-depressurization in space. The Zond 1 mission also marks and important ideological victory of the American's after their embarrassing Apollo 1 incident, it also be the 60th a