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Following Navy withdrawal from the Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM program, separate Army and Navy Ballistic Missile Committees were established under chairmanship of respective service secretaries. Navy withdrawal based on interest in solid-propellant Polaris as ship-based IRBM. Rocket test stand capable of testing engines to 1 million pounds thrust activated at Edwards AFB , which ...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 1957 Flight Propulsion Conference at Cleveland was review of analysis of space missions, nuclear propulsion systems, chemical propulsion systems, electrical propulsion systems, auxiliary power systems, and propellants. First Baker-Nunn precision optical satellite tracking camera Installed at White Sands, N. Mex., the first of 12 such optical ...

NASA requested DX priority for 1.5-million-pound-thrust F-1 rocket engine F-1 engine project and Project Mercury . Second International Symposium on Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere and Space was held at San Antonio, Texas.

Prototype Goodrich full-pressure Mercury astronaut suits (modified Navy Mark IV) were delivered to NASA. Navy Air Crew Equipment Laboratory (NACEL) of Philadelphia fitted suits and indoctrinated the astronauts on their use. Cooperative space efforts were discussed with Soviet scientists attending the American Rocket Society meeting in Washington, D.C. “Coast to Coast in 90 minutes” article ...

Issue 5 of the Bulletin of the American Interplanetary Society is published in New York. Articles include a history of the rocket by G.Edward Pendray , news from the Verein für Raumschiffahrt German rocket society that they have secured a large flying field to conduct their experiments, "The Mechanics of Rocket Flight" by Laurence E. Manning , news of a radio broadcast on CBS radio ...

"Berlin to New York in One Hour" by Hugo Gernsback appears in ''Everyday Science and Mechanics''. "By Rocket to the Planets" by David Lasser , president of the American Interplanetary Society appears in ''Nature Magazine''. Part 3 of ''Exiles of the Moon'' by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat appears in Hugo Gernsback 's ...

''The Great Thirst'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine.

Part 2 of ''I Am Not God'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine.

''The Eternal Wanderer'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine. Maurice K. Hanson publishes 8 of Novae Terrae magazine in England. The issue advertises an impending science fiction convention. This would be the first such convention held in England and would be attended by Edward John ...

''Simultaneous Worlds'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Maurice K. Hanson of the British Interplanetary Society publishes issue 27 of Novae Terrae magazine in London England. William F. Temple and Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke are associate editors. ...

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