Search wiki using Sphinx

Jump to: navigation, search

Vanguard (TV-5) failed to orbit due to malfunction of minor components in the firing circuit of third stage.

James H. Doolittle, Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, announced that a special committee on space technology was formed on November 21, 1957.

Lt. Comdr. Jack Neiman completed 44-hour simulated high altitude flight at between 80,000 and 100,000 feet in pressure chamber at NAS Norfolk.

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 ...

A letter contract was signed by NASA with North American Aviation NAA 's Rocketdyne Division for the development of the H-1 rocket engine, designed for use in a clustered-engine booster. '' Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Saturn Systems Office and Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Historical Office, Saturn Illustrated Chronology (George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , ...

The second manned rocket automobile tested by Fritz von Opel , Max Valier , and Kurt Volkhart, at Russelsheim, Germany. This time the car was equipped with 6 x 90mm powder rockets. The car achieved 70 km/h in six seconds. The second attempt used eight rockets but an explosion prohibited the car from traveling very fast. No press were allowed but author Otto Willi Gail was on hand.

Comdr. Renato Donati established altitude record of 47,352 feet in Caproni aircraft, at Rome, Italy.

California Rocket Society tested first hybrid rocket design in United States, using oxygen and carbon.

U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY scientific satellite equipment, including a radio transmitter and instruments for measuring temperature, pressure, cosmic rays, and meteoric dust encounters, was tested above earth for the first time, as a rocket containing this equipment was fired by the Navy to a 126-mile altitude. The Ryan X-13 , a jet research plane capable of vertical ...

Soviet space writer Nikolai Rynin writes letter to Robert H. Goddard about Hermann Oberth . Image:Nikolai_Alexseyevich_Rynin.jpg '''Nikolai Rynin'''

Powered by Sphinx