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... States, Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia and India will participate in NASA's Lunabotics Mining Competition May 26 - 28 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Reporters are invited ... science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, disciplines critical to NASA's missions. ''RELEASE: 11-139 NASA DAWN SPACECRAFT CAPTURES FIRST IMAGE OF NEARING ASTEROID'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Dawn ...

... (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, during a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT today, May 12. The call will stream live on NASA’s website. The teleconference participants are: Acting ...

Media:84-05-11.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

... Air Force Base, Calif., at approximately 9 a.m., 10:36 a.m. and 12:11 p.m. For recorded updates about landing, call 321-867-2525. Approximately two hours after ...

Lt. A. Soucek (USN) established world's altitude record of 39,140 feet, flying the Wright Apache over Anacostia, D.C.

A new division is established at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory GDL under Valentin P. Glushko to investigate liquid fuel and electric rockets. Some of the engineers and scientists under Glushko included A.L. Malyi, V.I. Serov, B.A. Kutkin, I.I. Kulagin, Ye. S. Petrov, Ye N. Kuzmin, N.G. Chernyshev, P.I. Minayev, V.P. Yukov, V.A. Timofeyev, N.M. Mukhin, and I.M. Pankin.

Heinrich Schreiner of Graz in Austria is granted Media:484064.pdf German patent 484064 for a liquid fuelled rocket.

First American-made DH-4, with Liberty engine, received in the AEF.

President Truman signed a bill providing a 5,000-mile guided-missile test range, which was subsequently established at Cape Canaveral , Fla.

National Research Laboratory NRL Viking 4 Viking No. 4 research rocket fired from the U.S.S. Norton Sound near Jarvis Island in the Pacific, at the intersection of the geographic and geomagnetic equators, obtaining cosmic-ray and pressure-temperature data. It set a 106.4-mile altitude record for an American single-stage rocket and was the first firing of the Viking from shipboard.

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