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The first supersonic flight in manned aircraft in level or climbing flight was made by Capt. Charles B. Yeager (USAF) at Maroc, Calif., in a rocket-powered National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA -USAF research plane, Bell XS-1, later the Bell X-1 X-1 (M=1.06).

Prototype of North America's B-64 Navaho , a X-10 ramjet guided missile, made its initial flight.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's PARD launched four-stage, solid-fuel rocket for heat transfer data to Mach 16.4, at Wallops Island, Va.

USAF and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA reviewed preliminary studies dating from 1954 on a boost-glide research vehicle to follow the X-15 ; all studies were combined into a single plan which was accepted by the Air Force and later designated as Dyna-Soar . American Rocket Society presented to President Eisenhower a program for onter space development which ...

NASA requested transfer of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the space activities of Army Redstone Arsenal to NASA.

First successful flight test of Nike-Zeus at White Sands Proving Ground WSPG .

''Release C15-043'' '''NASA Awards Contract for Aerospace Systems Research, Technology Development''' Under its Basic and Applied Aerospace technology (BAART) multiple-awards contract, NASA has awarded contracts to 11 companies to support research and technology development for aerospace systems at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The multiple-award, indefinite- ...

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... at age 66 following long illness. She had been cofounder of American Interplanetary Society in 1930. Society had been renamed American Rocket Society and was later merged with Institute of ... 10 Oct 11 1971 11 Oct 12 1971 12 Oct 13 1971 13 Oct 14 1971 14 Oct 15 1971 15 Oct 16 1971 16 Oct 17 1971 17 Oct 18 1971 18 Oct 19 1971 19 Oct 20 1971 20 Oct ...

... -air transcontinental service in U.S. TWA flew first all-air coast-to-coast flight Oct. 25, 1930, from New York with 13-passenger Ford trimotor aircraft, which stopped at Philadelphia, Harrisburg ... 10 Oct 11 1970 11 Oct 12 1970 12 Oct 13 1970 13 Oct 14 1970 14 Oct 15 1970 15 Oct 16 1970 16 Oct 17 1970 17 Oct 18 1970 18 Oct 19 1970 19 Oct 20 1970 20 Oct 21 ...

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