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German dirigible Hindenburg destroyed at Lakehurst, N.J., an event which ordained the death of the large dirigibles.

The BIS meets in London. Discussions include the Manchester Interplanetary Society and a lecture from John Happian Edwards entitled "How The Rocket Works."

BIS member S. Klemantaski delivers lecture "Spectroscopic Application in Astronomy" to the membership at the Mason's Arms pub in London.

Establishment of transonic flow in the Langley 16-foot high-speed wind tunnel following installation of a slotted-throat test section.

The third US-IGY space probe - the second under direction of NASA and with the Army as executive agent-was launched at 12:45 a.m., from AMR by Juno II rocket. The primary mission of PIONEER III , to place the scientific payload in the vicinity of the moon, was not accomplished although an altitude of 63,580 miles was achieved and it discovered that radiation belt was comprised of at least ...

"Rocket Fuels" a paper by William Lemkin is delivered to the American Interplanetary Society .

The initial plan for transferring the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and Saturn to NASA was drafted. It was submitted to President Dwight D. Eisenhower on December 11 and was signed by Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker and Secretary of the Air Force James H. Douglas on December 16 and by NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan on December 17. ''David S. Akens, Historical Origins of the ...

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''RELEASE: 10-256'' ''NASA ESTABLISHES TOURNAMENT LAB FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA and Harvard University have established the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), which will enable software developers to compete with each other to create the best computer code for NASA systems. The NTL provides an online virtual facility for NASA researchers with a computational or complex data ...

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