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White Sands Proving Ground announced missile range firing record: 2,000 "hot" firings in 1 year. First Titan test launch exploded on the pad at Cape Canaveral . New voice and teletype messages were received and rebroadcast on commaad by PROJECT SCORE satellite, and a series of experiments were continued in subsequent days.

First Atlas missile Atlas -C fired successfully at AMR.

Dr. Herbert F. York, Chief Scientist of Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA , was named as Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense by President Eisenhower.

Federal Council for Science and Technology to be headed by Dr. James R. Killian , Jr., was approved by President Eisenhower. PIONEER III data indicated that the earth is surrounded by two bands of radiation.

Plastic balloon flight No. 1,900 launched by the Balloon Branch of the Missile Development Center at Holloman AFB , a series beginning in July 1950.

Modified Navy Terrier rocket with camera launched to an altitude of 80 miles from Wallops Island, providing a 1,000-mile composite photograph of a frontal cloud formation.

Thor IRBM successfully fired from Cape Canaveral , flew prescribed course, and impacted in preselected area.

Department of Defense assigned responsibility for land-based ICBM/IRBM development to the USAF, and directed it to develop Minuteman solid-propellant ICBM capable of being launched from underground sites.

Vanguard (TV-5) failed to orbit due to malfunction of minor components in the firing circuit of third stage.

EXPLORER III reentered the earth's atmosphere.

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