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December 12-16: SMALL WORLD balloon with four passengers failed in transatlantic attempt, lifting from Canary Islands and landing at sea northeast of Barbados.

The Air Force order of December 10 creating a Directorate of Astronantics under Brig. Gen. Homer A. Boushey was suspended by Secretary William H. Douglas, as creation of such a group before establishment of the proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency was considered premature. A group of 27 scientists submit a proposal for the formation of a new civilian space agency to be formed with a budget ...

First successful test firing of USAF Atlas missile Atlas ICBM, the missile landing in the target area after a flight of some 500 miles, on the 54th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.

First full-scale production of electricity for commercial use by civilian nuclear power station, at Shipping-port, Pa.

A Thor missile, the eighth tested and the fourth successfully, completed the first fully-guided Thor IRBM flight using an all-inertial guidance system.

USAF awarded B-70 Mach 3 bomber development contract to North American Aviation .

World altitude record of 30,335 feet for helicopters set by Capt. J. E. Bowman (USA) in a Cessna YH41 Seneca at Wichita, Kans.

Secretary McElroy ordered acceleration of the Polaris program. The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee on Space Technology recommended acceleration of specific military projects and a vigorous space program with the immediate goal of landings on the moon because "Sputnik and the Russian ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) capability have created a national emergency." ...

“How An Earth Satellite is Placed in Orbit” article on Sputnik and Vanguard in the Illustrated London News. J. Allen Hyneck of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge Mass, says that the orbit of Sputnik 1 was calculated in 21 seconds by a computer at MIT. This calculation was only possible after painstaking observations by spotters around the world. The booster of ...

An all-steel frame, fabric-covered combat plane successfully flown, one designed by Grover C. Loening and built by Sturtevant Aeroplane Co.

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