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U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical year IGY submitted report of its Technical Panel on the Earth Satellite Program to the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, which outlined a post- International Geophysical year IGY space research program.

“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 ...

Navy dirigible Macon crashed at sea off the California coast.

Navy Loon launched from submarine Cusk at Point Mugu, first launching of a guided missile from a submarine.

First flight test of a high-energy fuel made by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Lewis Laboratory in an air-launched test vehicle.

Ralph A. Smith of the British Interplanetary Society unveils the latest version of the BIS lunar spacecraft in an article entitled ''Lunar Space Vessel''. The article includes more detail and modifications than appeared in the original version in 1939. ''Flight''

''RELEASE: 10-168'' ''NASA'S WISE MISSION READY TO COMPLETE EXTENSIVE SKY SURVEY'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will complete its first survey of the entire sky on July 17. The mission has generated more than one million images so far, of everything from asteroids to distant galaxies "Like a globe-trotting shutterbug, WISE has completed a world tour with 1. ...

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... representatives of the people in our system: the responsibility to lead. . . . "In the years since 1957 the American political system and its politicians have acquitted themselves well, as have our ... 10 Feb 11 1964 11 Feb 12 1964 12 Feb 13 1964 13 Feb 14 1964 14 Feb 15 1964 15 Feb 16 1964 16 Feb 17 1964 17 Feb 18 1964 18 Feb 19 1964 19 Feb 20 1964 20 Feb ...

... the key scientists responsible for launching the world's first satellite, Sputnik 1 , 4 Oct. 1957. Blagonravov had begun his career in the military and much of his early work was ... 10 Feb 11 1975 11 Feb 12 1975 12 Feb 13 1975 13 Feb 14 1975 14 Feb 15 1975 15 Feb 16 1975 16 Feb 17 1975 17 Feb 18 1975 18 Feb 19 1975 19 Feb 20 1975 20 Feb 21 1975 21 Feb 22 ...

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