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... 's absence. Kelly's wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was critically wounded in a shooting on Jan. 8 in Tucson, Ariz. Kelly remains commander of the mission, which is targeted for launch ... BRIEFING ABOUT NEXT EARTH SCIENCE MISSION'' WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m. EST, about the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission ...

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Media:84-01-13.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, Chief of Army General Headquarters Air Force, in an address to the annual convention of the National Aeronautic Association at St. Louis, said that the United States was a fifth- or sixth-rate air power.

Dr. George W. Lewis , National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Director of Aeronautical Research, elected president of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences IAS .

Dr. Edward P. Warner appointed economic and technical adviser of the CAA. BIS meet and assemble their Coelostat, a rotating mirror device for their proposed spacecraft.

The BIS meets at the Duke of York hotel in London and Ralph A. Smith introduces the membership to two years of work by the BIS Technical committee . The BIS lunar spacecraft. He also showed the new design for a proving stand that the committee had created.

The Evening Standard newspaper features a report on the BIS lunar spacecraft but includes errors. The reporter omitted references to landing by parachute and implied the occupant would only get broken legs from the landing. A claim which Arthur C. Clarke would late comment in the Bulletin of the BIS was "definitely excluded from our schedule."

The Daily Express newspaper features an article by William Hickey entitled "Trying for the Moon". It covers the efforts of the BIS Technical committee and their design for a manned lunar spacecraft.

"Nature" magazine prints a letter by Adler and von Halban revealing that an atomic reaction had been sustained long enough that nuclear power was an imminent possibility.

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