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March 4-15: Navy nonrigid airship ZPB-2 completed nonstop round-trip Atlantic crossing, simultaneously establishing new world endurance record for unrefueled flight of 264 hours and 14 minutes, Comdr. J. R. Hunt commanding.

Ion engine research begun at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Lewis Laboratory.

As a result of guidance from the Secretary of Defense as to desired level of effort, the Atomic Energy Commission reduced its program on nuclear rocket propulsion to a single laboratory effort, phasing out work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory and concentrating AEC development efforts at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA "Study of the Feasibility of a Hypersonic Research Airplane" ("Round Three") was submitted to the Air Force. Navy XKDT-1, solid-propellant, rocket-powered drone, made its first flight from F3H aircraft over NAMTC, Point Mugu, Calif.

SPUTNIK II , the world's second manmade satellite, launched by U.S.S.R. and remained in orbit until April 13, 1958, carrying a dog named " Laika ." It was the first vehicle to carry a living organism into orbit.

The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or NACA) was established by a rider to the Naval Appropriations Act, ". . . to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view of their practical solution." The sum of $5,000 a year was appropriated for 5 years. The total appropriation for naval aeronautics was $1 ...

Symposium on space medicine held by the University of Illinois at its Professional Colleges in Chicago. A large crowd attends to hear the following speakers: Space Medicine in the United States Air Force, Major General Harry G. Armstrong USAF MC Multi-stage Rockets and Artificial Satellites, Wernher von Braun Physiological Considerations on the Possibility of Life Under Extraterrestrial ...

PIONEER IV , fourth U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY space probe, a joint ABMA-JPL project under direction of NASA, was launched by a Juno II rocket from Atlantic Missile Range AMR and achieved earth-moon trajectory, passing within 37,000 miles of the moon before going into permanent solar orbit. Radio contact was maintained to a record distance of 406,620 miles. It was the ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-010 NASA AWARDS SPACE NETWORK EXPANSION-EAST OPTION'' WASHINGTON -- NASA awarded the option for the Space Network Expansion-East, under the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment contract, to General Dynamics C4 Systems of Scottsdale, Ariz. The cost-plus-award fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity option has a total estimated value of $32.7 million. The period ...

''RELEASE: 12-071 "WE ARE THE EXPLORERS" VIDEO SHOWCASES LEGACY OF EXPLORATION, FUTURE NASA MISSIONS'' HOUSTON -- A new video produced by NASA and narrated by actor Peter Cullen of "Transformers" fame celebrates humankind's inherent need to explore through the past, present and future. "We Are the Explorers" shows how humanity constantly has reached for new heights, broken new boundaries and ...

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