INPE - 1967

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The Technical and Scientific Cooperation Agreement between French and Brazilian Government (National Commission of Space Activities) is signed.
SERE project, about remote sensing, starts to work.

Joaquim Eduardo Witgen Barbosa analyzing a letter obtained by Radam project - Brazil (complete mapping of the country, using radar sensing techniques).

Worldwide

• A fire on Apollo 1 during a test launch, kill Ed White, Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee astronauts.

• The Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies during a Soyuz-1 flight.

• In Cape Town, South Africa, the surgeon Christian Barnard and his team perform successfully the first transplant of a human heart. The patient, Louis Washkansky, lived for 18 days.

Primeiro transplante de um coração humano

First transplant of a human heart.

Source: Heart Transplant