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First flight of Goddard rocket with gyroscopically controlled vanes for automatically stabilized flight, near Roswell, N. Mex.

Naval Aircraft Factory initiated development of a Glomb (glider bomb), to be towed long distances by powered aircraft and released over tar, get and guided by radio control and target-viewing television.

Two feasibility tests using drone aircraft conducted by Navy in Chesapeake Bay, the most successful Wing Project Fox BG-2 drone equipped with target-viewing TV camera, which was crash dived into a moving raft while under an airborne control pilot 11 miles away.

Douglas Thor IRBM (XSM75) was launched at Cape Canaveral , Fla., destroyed by range safety officer.

Max Valier drives his RAK-7 rocket car with the RAK liquid fuel rocket engine for the second time in pouring rain in front of the press at the Tempelhof aerodrome in Berlin. He completed two circuits of the airfield before darkness prohibited further attempts.

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-077 NASA HONORS PIONEER ASTRONAUT ALAN SHEPARD WITH MOON ROCK'' WASHINGTON -- NASA will posthumously honor Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American astronaut in space who later walked on the moon, with an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his contributions to the U.S. space program. Shepard's family members will accept the award on his behalf during a ceremony at 5:30 ...

''RELEASE: 10-063'' ''HEADS OF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION JOINT STATEMENT'' TOKYO -- The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation. With the assembly of the ISS nearing completion and the capability to support a full-time crew of six established, they ...

''RELEASE: 13-106 - NASA'S HUBBLE SEES A HORSEHEAD OF A DIFFERENT COLOR'' --WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Looking like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam, ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-043'' '''NASA to Discuss Latest Developments in Solar Electric Propulsion for Future Deep Space Exploration''' NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 21, to discuss the latest advances in the agency’s development of solar electric propulsion (SEP) for deep space exploration. Tuesday’s award of a contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. for the ...

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