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December 12-16: SMALL WORLD balloon with four passengers failed in transatlantic attempt, lifting from Canary Islands and landing at sea northeast of Barbados.

... the environmental footprint of aviation by reducing overall noise, engine emissions and fuel usage. ''RELEASE: 12-319 MARS ROVER CURIOSITY ARM TESTS NEARLY COMPLETE'' PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Curiosity team ... field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. ''RELEASE: 12-320 NASA REQUESTS PROPOSALS FOR INITIAL CONTRACTS TO CERTIFY COMMERCIAL CREW TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA ...

U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced that United States would propose a plan for international cooperation in the exploration of outer space to the United Nations.

President Eisenhower appointed Detlev W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; William A. AL Burden; James H. Doolittle; and Alan T. Waterman, Director of the NSF, to the National Aeronautics and Space Council. Additionally, the Space Council including the Administrator of NASA, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Chairman of the AEC as statutory members.

The third of the Project Argus Argus small A-bomb detonations beyond the atmosphere was conducted over the South Atlantic. Instruments of EXPLORER IV satellite recorded and reported to ground stations resultant electron densities, subsequently reported by James A. Van Allen .

Black Knight missile of the United Kingdom was launched from the Australian range at Woomera to an altitude of over 300 miles.

Joint NASA- Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA Manned Satellite Panel established to make final recommendation for manned space flight program.

First senior staff meeting of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) held, with Dr. T. Keith Glennan as Administrator, and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden as Deputy Administrator. KC-135 jet Stratotanker lifted 77,350-pound payload to an altitude of 1.25 miles. First use of Sidewinder aircraft rocket with heatseeker nose, by Chinese Nationalist F-86's over the ...

Vanguard (SLV-3) reached 265 miles' altitude and was destroyed 9,200 miles downrange over Central Africa on reentry into the atmosphere. Boeing B-52D set a world distance in a closed-circuit record of 6,233.981 miles, with Lt. CoL V. L. Sandacz at the controls.

Nike-Asp test flight from Navy LSD ''Point Defiance'' near Puka Island reached 800,000 feet, the highest altitude ever reached by ship-launched rocket, in preliminary test of Nike-Asp for use in International Geophysical year IGY solar eclipse studies.

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