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April 1-13: 17 Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Private F rockets were fired at Hueco Range, Fort Bliss, Tex.

Germans successfully launched A-9 missile A-9 , a winged prototype of the first ICBM (the A-10 missile A-10 ) designed to reach North America. A-4 missile A-4 reached a peak altitude of nearly 50 miles and a maximum speed of 2,700 mph.

Professor J.B.S. Haldane, an Oxford academic, writes an article "A Man Made Moon" for the Daily Worker newspaper. In this article he discusses the recently revealed plans for an orbiting space mirror proposed as a weapon of mass destruction by German scientists. Haldane dismisses the concept as being beyond current technology but in the process articulates that such a mirror would have to be ...

French Government established rocket test range at Colomb Bechar. Algeria.

Lockheed X-17 research rocket reached 9,000 mph at Patrick,AFB , Fla.

Navy rocket sled attained speed of 2,827.5 mph at China Lake, Calif.

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden and Loftus E. Becker appointed to assist Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in the forthcoming meetings at the United Nations of the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Testifying before the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever , Commander of the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, stated that all three military services ...

''RELEASE: 13-118 - NASA SELECTS SMALL BUSINESSES FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 44 additional proposals from 42 small high-technology companies to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Valued at about $30.7 million, these selections complement 39 Phase 2 ...

''RELEASE 17-046'' '''NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Talks STEM Education with President Trump''' NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, currently living and working aboard the International Space Station, broke the record Monday for cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut – an occasion that was celebrated with a phone call from President Donald Trump, First Daughter Ivanka Trump, and fellow ...

The BIS put a display of astronautics materials at the British Astronomical Association meeting at Burlington House in Piccadilly. Arthur C. Clarke is supposed to have acted as a "fifth column'' to observe the reaction of the "Astronomical World".

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