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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.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA reported that 50 percent of its research effort was being devoted to problems associated with missiles and space vehicles.

President Eisenhower requested $125 million to initiate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Successful proof tests subjecting humans to over 20 times the force of gravity were conducted, with National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's Maxime Faget conceiving concept of the contour couch on centrifuge at Navy AMAL, Johnsville, Pa. This couch became integral part ...

The second Project Argus Argus small A-bomb detonation beyond the atmosphere was conducted in the South Atlantic.

William M. Holaday appointed by the President to be Chairman of the NASA-DOD Civilian-Military Liaison Committee (CMLC).

Robert H. Goddard fired 11-foot liquid fuel rocket ''Nell'' to a height of 2,000 feet and a speed or near 500 mph near Roswell, N. Mex.

Special Committee on "Future Research Facilities of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA " recomended creation of another laboratory; resulted in Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field.

USAAF requested NRDC to undertake development of controlled-trajectory bombs, the beginning of the development of Azon.

U.S.S. George Washington, the first fleet Polaris submarine, was commissioned. Scientists associated with EXPLORER VII experiments reported their preliminary findings in a press conference at NASA Headquarters, which indicated sporadic burst of radiation from the sun could influence manned space flight. U.S. Congressmen Olin Teague and Emilio Daddario visit the Chance-Vought factory in ...

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