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Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics ended its activities.

Max Valier demonstrates his RAK-6 gas-propelled car at the Avus Speedway in Berlin. The car was powered by bottles of compressed carbon dioxide.

Max Valier sends a rocket propelled sled across a lake in Germany. He repeated the experiment six days later. Both sleds were unmanned and the maximum speed was 395 kph.

Stories about Max Valier and his new carbon dioxide propelled jet car appear in the press.

Lt. R. C. Saufley reached 11,975 feet over Pensacola in a Curtiss AH-14, an American altitude record for hydro-aeroplanes.

By Executive Order, President Dwight D. Eisenhower transferred the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ), a government-owned facility staffed and operated by the California Institute of Technology, from Army to NASA jurisdiction. The new Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL radio telescope at Camp Irwin, Calif., called the Goldstone Tracking Facility , was capable of ...

Wernher von Braun files his patent with the U.S. patent office for a "rocket propelled missile". The design looks exactly like the V-2 missile first launched 17 years earlier. It is issued in January 1961 as Media:2967393.pdf US Patent 2,967,393

''RELEASE: 12-415 NASA MARS ROVER FULLY ANALYZES FIRST MARTIAN SOIL SAMPLES'' PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and chlorine-containing substances, among other ingredients, showed up in samples Curiosity's arm delivered to an ...

''RELEASE: 10-320'' ''NASA-FUNDED RESEARCH DISCOVERS LIFE BUILT WITH TOXIC CHEMICAL'' WASHINGTON -- NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth. Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the ...

''Release 15-230'' '''Al Condes Named Associate Administrator of NASA’s Office of International and Interagency Relations''' NASA has named Al Condes the agency’s new associate administrator for the Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR) following the retirement of Michael O’Brien. As associate administrator, Condes will oversee the office that provides executive leadership ...

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