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... level in two decades. Total ozone, measured in Dobson units (DU), reached 124 DU on Oct. 1. NOAA ground-based measurements at the South Pole recorded 136 DU on Oct. 5. When the ozone hole is not present, total ozone typically ranges from 240-500 ... launch and docking of the next Russian cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Wednesday, Oct. 31. The ISS Progress 49 resupply ship, loaded with 2.5 tons of food, fuel ...

... CONTRACT RELEASE C17-037'' '''NASA Awards Multiple Construction Contracts''' NASA has awarded 24 Multiple Award Construction Contract Two (MACC-II) contracts to 20 small businesses and four large ...

Executive Board of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) proposed a plan to establish a Committee on Space Research, which became known as COSPAR .

Vandenberg AFB , first operational ICBM base in free world, was dedicated. Jet transatlantic passenger service inaugurated by British Overseas Airways.

NASA formally organized Project Mercury to: (1) place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the earth ; (2) investigate man's reactions to and capabilities in this environment; end (3) recover capsule and pilot safely. A NASA Space Task Group organized at Langley Research Center drew up specifications for the Mercury capsule, based on studies by the National Advisory Commlttee ...

U.S.S.R. supplied telemetry code of SPUTNIK III to other International Geophysical year IGY members, covering only radiation measurements. In MAN HIGH III balloon launched from Holloman AFB , Lt. Clifton M. McClure attained a near-record altitude of 99,900 feet. An electronics show in Toronto Canada features an exhibit of the US Army's Explorer III and rocketry equipment ...

PIONEER I , U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY space probe under direction of NASA and with the AFBMD as executive agent, launched from AMR, Cape Canaveral , Fla., by a Thor-Able -I booster. It traveled 70,790 miles before returning to earth, determined radial extent of great radiation belt, first observations of earth's and interplanetary magnetic field, and first measurements ...

Naval Research Laboratory rocket firings in Danger Island region of the South Pacific from U.S.S. Point Defiance, reached 139, 148, 152, and 150 miles attitude to chart solar spectrum in the ultraviolet and X-ray portion.

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

Three weeks after NASA officially began operating, prospective contractors were invited to a briefing at NASA headquarters on development of 1½-million-pound-thrust engine. First launching of two USAF Bomarc missiles within less than 10 seconds of each other at Cape Canaveral ; launches signaled from SAGE at Kingston, N.Y., and both missiles scored successful intercepts against different ...

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