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Wac Corporal (WAC-B), fired from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG . attained an altitude of 240,000 feet.

V-2 missile V-2 reached an altitude of 92 miles in launch from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG .

American Astronautical Society ( American Astronautical Society AAS ) incorporated in the State of New York.

In a letter to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, President Eisenhower repeated his plea for the dedication of outer space to peaceful uses. Denying that this proposal was intended "to gain strategic advantages for the United States," he stressed the urgency of dealing with outer space before its use for military purposes had, like nuclear weapons, advanced to the point where complete ...

''Space'' the first part of a ten part science fiction series by Archibald Montgomery Low appears in Cyril Arthur Pearson 's English science fiction story magazine Scoops . Low would become the first scientist to become a member of the British Interplanetary Society and would later become President of that organisation. Image:feb1734-1.jpg 200px

Journal des Voyages publishes Mars cover story in France. Image:1901_mars_communicates_with_earth.jpg 200px

''RELEASE: 10-167'' ''NASA FINDS SUPER HOT PLANET WITH UNIQUE COMET-LIKE TAIL'' WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a "cometary planet. The gas giant planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space. Observations taken with Hubble's Cosmic ...

'''How a NASA Team Turned a Smartphone into a Satellite Business''' Satellites aren’t small or cheap. The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched by NASA in 2010 weighs about 6,800 pounds and cost $850 million to build and put into orbit. Even the satellites built under NASA’s Discovery Program, aimed at encouraging development of low-cost spacecraft, still have price tags beyond the reach of ...

Lecture by Dr. E. Schopper to the GfW in Stuttgart, "Die Kosmische Hohenstrahlung" (Cosmic Radiation).

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