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May 30-31: First 1,000-plane raid by RAF Bomber Command on Cologne, Germany.

... and development. NASA selected these five teams from among a group of proposals received in May 2012. The X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge 2013 teams are: - California State Polytechnic University, Ponoma ... -6. On launch day, the Stargazer will take off and at around 11:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. PDT) will drop the rocket, which will then ignite and carry ...

... 122.8 million miles during its 25 flights. It launched on its first mission on May 7, 1992. Wednesday's landing opportunities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are ... Launch Pad 39A scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday and will remain open until 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. '''' '''' ''''

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley Laboratory demonstrated practically noiseless airplane with five bladed propellor and muffled exhaust. Walter Dornberger accompanied by Lt.Col. Seashore and Lt Col Edmund Tilley, look for a tin box filled with documents from Peenemunde hidden at Oberjoch. Somebody had removed it.

Army Corporal E, first U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic guided missile, was fired with results exceeding expectations (a Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL project).

V-2 missile V-2 impacted 1½ miles south of Juarez, Mexico, resulting in new safety measures at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG .

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

Wernher von Braun is interrogated by Dr Marchant and Lt Col Tilley about missing documents from Peenemunde.

Walter Dornberger is interrogated by Lt. Col. Seashore about the location of hidden caches of Peenemunde documents. Intelligence reported later that "he gave his evidence unhesitatingly and, apparently, truthfully and accurately."

Standard system of designating guided missiles and assigning popular names was adopted by the Army and Navy. Basic designation adopted was two letter combination of the three letters A (Air), S (Surface), U (Underwater), the first letter indicating origin of missile, the second letter its objective to be followed by the letter "M" for missile. Thus a surface-to-air missile was designated "SAM."

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