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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 ...

USAF successfully launched pellets at a speed faster than 33,000 mph (some 8,900 mph faster than the velocity necessary to escape from the earth) by an Aerobee rocket to a height of 35 miles ; the nose section then ascended to a height of 54 miles where shaped charges blasted the pellets into space.

Lt. Comdrs. Malcolm Ross (USN) and L. Lewis (USN) ascended to unofficial two-man altitude record of 85,700 feet in STRATO-LAB HIGH II balloon. October 18-20: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA "Round Three" Steering Committee met at Ames Laboratory.

Army Jupiter missile Jupiter (IRBM) missile successfully fired at Cape Canaveral , Fla. Four-stage rocket fired from a balloon at 100,000 feet above Eniwetok, in Operation Far Side, penetrated at least 2,700 miles into outer space.

International Geophysical year IGY Vanguard prototype (TV-2) with simulated second and third stage successfully met test objectives, by reaching 109-mile altitude and 4,250 mph.

Thor long-range flight test successful from AMR, impacting 2,645 miles downrange.

SPUTNIK I ceased transmissions. Soviet scientists predicted the batteries would only last three weeks. ''Globe and Mail''

Snark intercontinental missile launched from Cape Canaveral first flew 5,000 miles, to a target near Ascension Island.

“How An Earth Satellite is Placed in Orbit” article on Sputnik and Vanguard in the Illustrated London News. J. Allen Hyneck of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge Mass, says that the orbit of Sputnik 1 was calculated in 21 seconds by a computer at MIT. This calculation was only possible after painstaking observations by spotters around the world. The booster of ...

Soviet and Western scientists agree at a conference in Barcelona to swap data about satellites under the Project Moonwatch program. American reports state that small U.S. satellites will be launched in December, but fully equipped American satellites will not fly until March 1958. ''Globe and Mail''

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