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Gen. Thomas D. White, USAF, wrote James H. Doolittle, Chairman, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA : "There was regret at the passing of an agency that for 43 years has set the world's standard in aeronautical research. . . . There has always been for us in the Air Force, the knowledge that National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA was ready to help in any aerodynamic ...

The first Project Argus Argus experiment ( Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA )) was conducted (based upon October 1957 proposal of N. C. Christofilos of the University of California, Livermore), in which a small A-bomb was detonated beyond the atmosphere over the South Atlantic. Launched from the rocketship Norton Sound, the initial flash was followed by an auroral luminescence ...

Second full-powered flight of USAF Atlas missile Atlas ICBM traveled 3,000 miles with radio-inertial guidance.

The second Project Argus Argus small A-bomb detonation beyond the atmosphere was conducted in the South Atlantic.

Thor IRBM successfully fired from Cape Canaveral , flew prescribed course, and impacted in preselected area.

Department of Defense assigned responsibility for land-based ICBM/IRBM development to the USAF, and directed it to develop Minuteman solid-propellant ICBM capable of being launched from underground sites.

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

EXPLORER III reentered the earth's atmosphere.

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.

USAF Atlas missile Atlas made its first successful operational test flight in a 6325 statute-mile flight, landed close to its target.

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