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“Into Frontiers Beyond Earth” Scott Crossfield in pressure suit in Life Magazine

The first meeting of the Canadian Astronautical Society takes place at de Havilland Missile Division in Downsview Ontario. Fourteen people attend and elect Philip A. Lapp as president.

In a message to Congress, President Eisenhower proposed the establishment of a National Aeronautics and Space Agency into which the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics would be absorbed. This agency was to have responsibility for civilian space science and aeronautical research. It would conduct research in these fields in its own facilities or by contract and would also perform military ...

First full-powered flight of USAF Atlas missile Atlas ICBM using both the sustainer and booster engines.

U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced that United States would propose a plan for international cooperation in the exploration of outer space to the United Nations.

Executive Board of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) proposed a plan to establish a Committee on Space Research, which became known as COSPAR .

Special investigation of high-temperature aluminium alloys begun by J. C. McGee, Wright Field engineer, which led by June 1947 to useful alloy known as "ML." named after the Materials Laboratory.

U.S.S.R. launched LUNIK I into a solar orbit, with a total weight of a reported 3,245 pounds, the first manmade object placed in orbit around the sun. It was called MECHTA. ("dream") by the Russians. Defense officials indicated fiscal year 1960 budget would' begin major integration of long-range missiles into weapons arsenal and replacement of manned aircraft on a large scale. In a staff ...

Media:81-01-02.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

''RELEASE: C13-001 - NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES'' --CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has awarded the Kennedy Space Center Institutional Support Services III, or KISS III, contract to Wichita Tribal Enterprises, LLC of Tulsa, Okla. KISS III begins Feb. 1. The contract has a seven-month base period and options to extend the work through Sept. 30, 2016. If all options are ...

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