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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.

Space program for the United States proposed by the U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY Satellite Panel.

President Eisenhower's Christmas message beamed from PROJECT SCORE satellite in orbit, the first voice beamed in from space. BOLD ORION (WS-199) launched from B-58 Hustler traveling at about 1,100 mph over Cape Canaveral , Fla.

Naval Air Station Pensacola began taking upper atmosphere weather soundings to provide wind velocity and direction. Recording instruments were carried aloft by a kite balloon, a technique developed by the station meteorological officer Lt. W. F. Reed.

Dr. Frank L. Wattendorf, Engineering Division, Wright Field, and a member of AAF Scientific Advisory Group, recommended to Brig. Gen. F. O. Carroll, Chief, Engineering Division, that an Air Force Development Center, including facilities for development of supersonic aircraft and missiles, be built on a location away from Wright Field and near a large source of power. The British newspapers ...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley's PARD launched first successful control-surface research vehicle at Wallops Island for evaluating controllability with a roll rate transmitter and Doppler radar. AAF contracted with Sverdrup & Parcel, Inc., for study utility and cost requirements, and site surveys for both an AAF Air Engineering Development Center, and a National ...

World speed record regained by United States when P-80R flown by Col. Albert Boyd attained 623.8 mph at Muroc, Calif.

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