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First of a series of V-2 missile V-2 firings (No. 20) known as Blossom Project, tested ejection of canister and its recovery by parachute, containing fruit flies and various types of seeds exposed to cosmic rays.

... off Virginia Coast March 27''' NASA will test a parachute for possible future missions to Mars from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday, March 27. Live coverage of ...

... . 167.'' H.R. 5916, introduced by Mr. Thomas and referred to Appropriations. Reported out March 20 (H. Rept. 238). Passed the House March 24. Reported out by Senate Appropriations April 18 ... 14. Senate agreed to conference report May 14. Became Public Law 86–30 on May 20, 1959. Appropriated $3,186,300 to NASA.

Air operations in the Antarctic known as Operation Highjump ended. From December 24. 1946, Navy PBM's and R4D's logged 650 hours in photographic mapping of 1,500,000 square miles of the interior and 5,560 miles of the coastline, the equivalent of about half the area of the United States and its entire coastline.

First four-engine jet bomber, the XB-45 built by North American, made first test flight at Muroc, Calif., with George Krebs as pilot. Its engines were arranged in pairs in single nacelles in each wing.

USN V-2 missile V-2 flight from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG took first photograph at 100-mile altitude.

The membership of the British Interplanetary Society is invited to a movie screening at the Science Museum in Kensington London by the Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Education. 186 members attend to see a German instructional film about the V-1 , a movie called ''Development of Rocket Flight'' and a Pathé newsreel showing high altitude photography from a captured V-2 .

Wernher von Braun is taken to H.Q. USFET for an interrogation by Dr. John H. Marchant of Brown University and Lt. Col. G.S. Edmund Tilley.

Hans Waas, the former general manager of PEENEMUNDE-WEST, is interrogated by Dr. Marchant and Lt Col Tilley. Waas helps them secure several boxes of paperwork missing from Peenemunde.

Comdr. T. Caldwell (USN) flew the Douglas D-558-I (No. 1) Sky-streak, powered by a General Electric TG-180 turbojet, to a new world's speed record of 640.7 mph. Five days later Maj. Marion Carl. USMC, added another 10 mph flying D-558-I (No. 2).

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