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... began in Montreal. Image:CAI_Astro.jpg 400px First Canadian Aeronautical Institute - Astronautics Committee October 1958. D. Bogandoff, Dr. Herbert S. Ribner H.S. Ribner , W.F. Campbell, J.A. van ...

... referred to Rules. Reported out May 29 (H. Rept. 1837). Passed the House July 21, 1958. Created a standing Committee on Science and Astronautics.

... the Center for American Progress in Washington from 10 to 11 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 28. The event will air live on NASA Television and on the agency’s website at: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv The agency announced on Oct. 8 the release of its report, NASA’s Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in ...

... Commander Shane Kimbrough will answer questions from the students. Kimbrough launched to the station on Oct. 19 and will return home in February. NASA’s Robyn Gatens, deputy director of the ...

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.

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