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James A. Chamberlin Chief of Design at A.V. Roe Canada and one of the principle designers of the Avro Arrow and later the Gemini spacecraft, becomes an associate fellow of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute .

Navy rocket sled attained speed of 2,827.5 mph at China Lake, Calif.

Gravity load of 83 g's for a fraction of a second withstood by Capt. E. L. Breeding in deceleration of a rocket sled at Holloman AFB . H. Rept. 1770, Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, “Establishment of the National Space Program,” published to accompany H.R. 12575.

Senate established Standing Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences.

EXPLORER V successfully launched by ABMA-JPL Jupiter-C and all stages fired, but orbit not achieved because of collision between parts of booster aud instrument compartment.

First senior staff meeting of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) held, with Dr. T. Keith Glennan as Administrator, and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden as Deputy Administrator. KC-135 jet Stratotanker lifted 77,350-pound payload to an altitude of 1.25 miles. First use of Sidewinder aircraft rocket with heatseeker nose, by Chinese Nationalist F-86's over the ...

Dr. Herbert F. York, Chief Scientist of Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA , was named as Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense by President Eisenhower.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Committee on Aerodynamics summarized in its annual report that it had direct control of aerodynamic research conducted at Langley, the propeller research conducted at Stanford University under W. F. Durand, and some special investigation at the Bureau of Standards and at a number of Universities. Investigation undertaken at the Washington Navy ...

Heinrich Schreiner is granted a German patent for a piston and pump operated rocket engine.

Space shuttle Atlantis is launched from Cape Canaveral on a mission for the Department of Defense. STS-44 was the tenth shuttle Atlantis flight. On board were Astronauts Frederick Gregory , Terence Henricks , Story Musgrave , Mario Runco , James Voss , and Thomas Hennen . This was a dedicated mission for the US Department of Defense to gather data for their programs. The ...

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