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Secretary of Defense McElroy directed the Department of the Army to launch a scientific satellite with the modified Jupiter-C test rocket. The satellite, carrying instruments selected by the National Academy of Sciences, would be a part of this country's contribution to the International Geophysical year IGY . William M. Holaday, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Guided Missiles, ...

''PSC Applied Research Limited'' changes its name to Canadian Applied Research .

Royal Society holds a press conference about Sputnik where Sir Owen Wansborough-Jones, chief scientist to the British Ministry of Supply stated that although his department was contributing rocket technology to the IGY program, his ministry was not interested in satellites from a defence perspective.

First flight of the XB-36, the development of which had begun in 1941.

A. L. Berger of Wright Field received the Thurman H. Bane Award for 1947 for work in developing new types of high-temperature ceramic coatings for use in aircraft engines.

First operational emergency use of T-1 partial pressure suit by Maj. F. K. Everest (USAF) in Bell X-1 X-1 aircraft at 69,000 feet; suit's automatic operation saved pilot and aircraft.

X-1A . exploded just prior to time of drop from "mother" B-29, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA pilot Joseph A. Walker was saved and X-1A was jettisoned.

Largest U.S. test stand for rocket motors was completed at Redstone Arsenal , slated for Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM.

T. Keith Glennan , President of Case Institute of Technology, and Hugh L. Dryden , Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , were nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be Administrator and Deputy Administrator of NASA. The Senate confirmed their nominations one week later. ''Rosholt, An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963, pp. 40-42. ''

''RELEASE: 12-273 FIRST 360-DEGREE PANORAMA FROM NASA'S CURIOSITY MARS ROVER'' PASADENA, Calif. -- Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars. The images from Curiosity's just-activated navigation cameras, or Navcams, include the rover's first self-portrait, looking ...

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