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Paul E. Bikle established world glider speed record of 66.02 mph over 300 km triangular course, in a Schweizer SGS 123E sailplane, from El Mirage, Calif.

STRATOSCOPE I, an unmanned balloon-telescope system, launched by General Mills under Navy contract for Princeton University astronomers, which produced first "clear" photos of the sun from 80,000 feet using a 12-inch telescope. August 19-26: Airborne for 32 hours in MAN HIGH II flight, Maj. David G. Simons , USAF, established a manned-balloon altitude record of 101,516 feet, ascending at ...

Soviet Union successfnlly launched a "super long-distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket . . . a few days ago," according to Tass, Soviet News Agency.

Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1958, appropriated $34,200,000 for the U.S. scientific satellite "to be derived by transfer from such annual appropriations available to the Department of Defense as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense, to remain available until expended."

NACA established "Round Three" Steering Committee to study feasibility of a hypersonic boost-glide research airplane. "Round Three" was considered as the third major flight research program which started with the X-series of rocket-propelled supersonic research airplanes, and which considered the X-15 research airplane as the second major program. The boost-glide program eventually became ...

USAF and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA reviewed preliminary studies dating from 1954 on a boost-glide research vehicle to follow the X-15 ; all studies were combined into a single plan which was accepted by the Air Force and later designated as Dyna-Soar . American Rocket Society presented to President Eisenhower a program for onter space development which ...

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.''

First airmail delivered at sea, by Aeromarine flying boat to the White liner ''Adriatic'' (Br.).

World War II ended with Japanese surrender. Team of American scientists was dispatched to Europe to collect information and equipment relating to German rocket progress.

Nominations of Dr. T. Keith Glennan and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden were approved by the Senate Special Committee on Space and Astronautics.

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