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... for Landsat Data Continuity Mission -- Jody Singer, deputy manager, Space Launch System Program At 3:30 p.m., NASA TV's media channel will air a briefing about the future of ...

Image:1929-10-30_Oberth_launch.jpg Article announcing Hermann Oberth launching his first test rocket at a chemical factory in Reinickendorf Berlin.

The Space Age begins with SPUTNIK I , the first man-made earth satellite, launched by U.S.S.R.. It remained in orbit until January 4, 1958. It was built by Sergei Pavlovitch Korolev 's design bureau and the booster was powered by the RD-107 and RD-108 rocket engines, both built by Valentin P. Glushko 's design bureau. The National Rocket Club was organized in Washington, D.C.

Eighth International Astronautical Federation IAF Congress began at Barcelona, Spain.

President Eisenhower in a White House press release congratulated the Soviet scientists on SPUTNIK I . He gave a brief history of the development of the U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY satellite program and pointed to the separation of Project Vanguard from work on ballistic missiles. Moscow announces the Sputnik nosecone was also in orbit.

Thor missile launched at Cape Canaveral , the second tested, achieved its designed 1,500-mile range. Dr. John Hagen, director of Project Vanguard accuses the Soviets of "unethical conduct" by launching Sputnik at this time.

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.

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