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Oxygen


1986 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem

1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon

1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft

1794 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined

1774 Priestly discovers oxygen

1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen

1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry, Oxygen



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