August 1959, a Taiwanese pilot in the States for training on the U2 lost his engine & was able to glide to a landing in Cortez, CO....at night. He made it safely.
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/08/03/top-secret-u-2-plane-landed-in-cortez-54-years-ago/
We had another incident soon after Apollo 1: From Apollo 1 Wiki: “ On January 31, 1967, four days after the Apollo 1 fire, United States Air Force airmen William F. Bartley Jr. and Richard G. Harmon were killed in a flash fire while tending laboratory rabbits in the Two Man Space Environment Simulator, a pure oxygen chamber at the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base. Like the Apollo 1 fire, the School fire was caused by an electrical spark in a pure oxygen environment. The widows of the Apollo 1 crew sent condolence letters to Bartley and Harmon's families.”
Also, the Soviets had an incident before the Apollo 1 incident & had we known what had happened, probability the Apollo 1 accident may not have happened. As it was, the Soviets were super secret, especially abt their failures. Again Apollo 1 Wiki: “ Incidents had also occurred in the Soviet space program, but due to the Soviet government's policy of secrecy, these were not disclosed until well after the Apollo
CSX (otherwise known as Crash, Smash, or Xplode) may run into regulatory issues w/the Pan Am RR purchase as it would create a virtual monopoly in the New England states.
I (& over 500,000 US troops) had all kinds of ‘experimental’ drugs given to us (to include daily Pyridostigmine Bromide tablets) prior to Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. A lot of us had debilitating effects from those drugs & exposure. Going to be a long time before I’ll take one.