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First flight of aircraft modified to demonstrate high-lift boundary layer control made by Lt. Col. R. E. Horner, a project initiated in May 1942 by USAAF contract.

... August 1 with a two-year base period, followed by three one-year options that may be exercised at NASA's discretion. It is a performance-based, cost-plus-fixed-fee ...

... Engineer Jack Fischer will perform a landmark 200th spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday, May 12. Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and ...

... research at JPL focusing on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, to address what habitable environments may exist on the moon and what potential signatures of life would be expected, using data ...

Scientific findings from the two Explorer satellites disclosed an unexpected band of high-intensity radiation extending from 600 miles above earth to possibly an 8,000-mile altitude. The radiation was described by Dr. James A. Van Allen as "1,000 times as intense as could be attributed to cosmic rays." Responsibility for the Project Vanguard portion of the U.S.- International ...

Flying a Lockheed F-101A Star-fighter at Edwards AFB , Calif., Maj. Howard C. Johnson (USAF) set a 91,249-foot world altitude record for ground-launched planes.

Lt. Comdr. Jack Neiman completed 44-hour simulated high altitude flight at between 80,000 and 100,000 feet in pressure chamber at NAS Norfolk.

SPUTNIK III placed into orbit by the U.S.S.R. with a total payload weight of about 7,000 pounds, and called a "flying laboratory."

In level flight over a 10-mile course at Edwards AFB , Calif., Capt. Walter W. Irwin (USAF), flying a F-104A Starfighter, set a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.

First U.S. full-size tactical nose cone was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean 4½ hours after launching from Cape Canaveral on a Jupiter missile Jupiter missile.

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