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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.

4751st Air Defense Missile Wing to develop and conduct training program for Bomarc units, and the 864th Strategic Missile Squadron to be equipped with Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM, were both activated.

U.S.S.R. Foreign Ministry statement proposed that ban on use of outer space for military purposes, as suggested by President Eisenhower, be coupled with the liquidation of foreign military bases in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Contract awarded for inertial guidance system for the Titan I missile Titan ICBM to American Bosch Arms by the USAF.

Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration of the House of Representatives opened hearings on outer space leading toward formulation of a national space program.

SPUTNIK III placed into orbit by the U.S.S.R. with a total payload weight of about 7,000 pounds, and called a "flying laboratory."

Saturn Project initiated by Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA order to Army Ordnance Missile Command, and it was assigned to Redstone Arsenal . Dr. T. Keith Glennan confirmed by the Senate as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Federal Aviation Agency created with passage by Congress of the Federal Aviation Act. The Advanced Research Projects ...

First meeting of COSPAR ( Committee on Space Research ) proposed bylaws and rules for the approval of the ICSU, at London.

Naval Aircraft Factory authorized to begin construction of working models of retractable landing gears because of design progress.

''MEDIA ADVISORY M18-032'' '''NASA Invites Media to Upcoming Space Station Cargo Launch''' Media accreditation now is open for the launch of the next SpaceX delivery of supplies and equipment, including science investigations, to the International Space Station, currently targeted for no earlier than April. A Dragon cargo spacecraft, previously flown on SpaceX’s eighth commercial resupply ...

Hermann Koelle delivers talk to the GfW in Stuttgart titled "Atomraketenantriebe"

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