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USAF Boeing XB-47 Stratojet made first flight from Seattle to Moses Lake, first medium turbojet bomber and the first with engines (six) mounted on pylons.

Michael W. Ovenden delivers paper entitled ''Recent Developments in Astronomy'' at the annual meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . The paper was reproduced in the March 1948 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

Heinz Hermann Koelle gives a lecture on space travel in lecture hall 37 at the Schwäbischen Sternwarte (Stuttgart Observatory). He is allowed to do this under the license granted to the observatory. About 200 people attend. During the evening he asks if anyone would be interested in joining a new society. About 45 people signed up immediately to join what would become a new chapter of the ...

Start of polyethylene balloon operations at Holloman, a 10-balloon cluster launched by New York University staff with a payload of less than 50 pounds which reached an altitude of 18,500 feet.

Michael W. Ovenden delivers paper entitled ''The Nature and Distribution of Meteors'' at the monthly meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . 26 members attend.

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 ...

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