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Navy aircraft won first and second places in Schneider Cup international seaplane races at Cowes, England, and established new world record for seaplanes with a speed of 109.89 mph for 200 kilometers. Flying CR-3's powered by Curtiss D-12 engines, Lt. David Rittenhouse achieved 177.38 mph in the race, while Lt. Rutledge Irvine placed second with 173.46 mph.

An Army Signal Corps unmanned balloon, released at Belmar, N.J., set a 140,000-root altitude record. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory in Cleveland .was redesignated the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory , in memory of Dr. George W. Lewis who died on July 12, 1948.

In a balloon launched at Holloman AFB , eight white mice survived an Aeromedical Laboratory flight to an altitude of 97,000 feet.

Special meeting of the Air Force Council reviewed USAF R&D program and recommended to Chief of Staff Vandenberg the development of an intercontinental strategic weapons system.

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.

The Conquest of Space by David Lasser is published by Penguin Press at a retail price of $3. It is the first serious book about rocketry published in English.

''RELEASE: 11-327 150 OF NASA'S TWITTER FOLLOWERS WILL BE INVITED TO MARS ROVER LAUNCH'' WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Tweetup is expected to culminate in the launch of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 from ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-054 NASA SELECTS FACILITIES OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES CONTRACT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Chugach Federal Systems Inc., of Anchorage, Alaska, for facilities operations and maintenance services for the Management Operations Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a technical ...

''RELEASE: 10-296'' ''SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS NASA EARTH, SPACE MISSIONS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA will showcase the latest achievements in climate simulation, space exploration, aeronautics engineering, science research and supercomputing technology at the 23rd annual Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) meeting. The leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-113'' '''NASA Television to Provide Coverage of European Mission Comet Touchdown''' NASA Television and the agency’s website will air the conclusion of ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Rosetta mission from 6:15 to 8 a.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 30, with NASA commentary, interviews and analysis of the successful mission. The Rosetta mission will end with the controlled decent of ...

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