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Phase I development contract for Dyna-Soar boost-glide orbital spacecraft awarded by USAF to two teams of contractors beaded by Martin Co. (Bell, American Machine & Foundry, Bendix , Goodyear, and Minneapolis-Honeywell) and the Boeing Co. (Aerojet, General Electric, Ramo-Wooldridge, North American. and Chance Vought ). Pacific Missile Range , Point Mugu, Calif., officially ...

Production Vanguard satellite (SLV-2) failed to orbit due to failure of second stage, but demonstrated structural integrity of tankage which with, stood pressure exceeding design values.

First successful launching by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley's Aircraft Research Division of a Mach 18 five-stage rocket vehicle at Wallops Island, Va. USAF strategic missile squadron successfully completed first military launch of a Snark intercontinental missile at Cape Canaveral .

EXPLORER III reentered the earth's atmosphere.

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.

SPUTNIK II reentered earth's atmosphere.

U.N. General Assembly adopted resolution bringing into being an 18-member Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Squirrel monkey Gordo made 1,500-mile flight in nose cone of Army Jupiter missile Jupiter with no known adverse effects, but float mechanism failed and nose cone was not recovered.

First test of the German A-4 missile A-4 ( V-2 missile V-2 ) rocket unsuccessful at Peenemünde , Germany.

The first German V-1 flying bomb V-1 's fired in anger, launched from France against England with 4 of the 11 striking London. the first V-1 pulsejet winged missile crossed from the Pas de Calais to explode in the center of London. The V-1 missile had a speed of 400 miles per hour and a range of 190 miles. It carried a warhead of 1,988 pounds.

Department of Defense assigned range responsibilRies to the armed services: Army : White Sands, N. Mex., Proving Ground and nearby Holleman Air Force Base at Alamogordo; Navy: Point Mugu, Calif.; Air Force : Long-Range Proving Gronnd at Banana River, Fla. (now called Cape Canaveral ).

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