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First complete Aerobee rocket was fired to a height of 190,000 feet from White Sands Proving Ground , N. Mex. A massive explosion occurs at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment in Westcott England, when a Walter 109/501 rocket engine explodes on the test stand. The blast injured eleven people and killed three scientists including Johannes Schmidt the head of the German team brought ...

First launch of a 3,750,000 cubic-foot plastic balloon at Holloman AFB ; payload was a parachute test vehicle for development of high-Mach parachute systems.

World's largest balloon (107 cubic feet) launched from Stratohowl near Rapid City, S. Dak., by Winzen Research, reaching maximum altitude of near 118,000 feet with a 1-ton payload suspended. New Aerospace Medical Center dedicated at Brooks AFB, Tex.

Christopher Antoonovics of St. Petersburg is given a German patent for raising an aircraft using continuous explosions of a liquid propellant.

A new edition of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 's "Rocket in Cosmic Space" is published in Kaluga in the Soviet Union.

The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted Resolution 1148 (XII), calling, in part, for "the joint study of an inspection system designed to ensure that the sending of objects through outer space shall be exclusively for peaceful and scientific purposes." ''John Michael Kemp, Evolution Toward a Space Treaty: An Historical Analysis (NASA HHN-64, 1967), pp. 8-9.''

''RELEASE: 12-394 NASA'S KEPLER COMPLETES PRIME MISSION, BEGINS EXTENDED MISSION'' WASHINGTON -- NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope's 3 1/2- year prime mission and the beginning of an extended mission that could last as long as four years. Scientists have used Kepler data to identify more than 2,300 planet ...

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