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... Commander Kevin Ford aboard the International Space Station at 12:30 p.m. EST Friday, Nov. 30. Students will ask Ford questions about life, work and research aboard the orbiting laboratory ... of space and NASA's human spaceflight program. ''MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-220 NASA ADMINISTRATOR HOLDS NOV. 28 MEDIA AVAILABILITY AT ALABAMA ULA FACILITY'' WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will tour the ...

Army completed Redstone flight testing with a perfect 250-mile shot.

Bidders conference held by NASA on manned-satellite capsule for Project Mercury .

Second U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY space probe under direction of NASA with Air Force as executive agent, PIONEER II , was launched from AMR. Unseparated third and fourth stages reached an altitude of about 1,000 miles and flew some 7,500 miles before burning out.

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.

First meeting of COSPAR ( Committee on Space Research ) proposed bylaws and rules for the approval of the ICSU, at London.

NASA formed new Special Committee on Life Sciences to provide advice on human factors, medical, and allied problems on NASA's manned space vehicle program.

USAF Atlas missile Atlas made its first successful operational test flight in a 6325 statute-mile flight, landed close to its target.

A contract was signed by the University of Manchester, Manchester, England, and the Air Force AF 61(052)-168 for $21,509. Z. Kopal, principal investigator, was to provide topographical information on the lunar surface for production of accurate lunar maps. Kopal would work at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory in France, and the data would be transmitted to the Air Force Aeronautical Chart and ...

The Second International Symposium on the Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere And Space begins at the Hilton Hotel in San Antonio Texas.

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