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U.S. School of Aviation Medicine began operations under Maj. Williams H. Wilmer, Signal Corps, Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, N.Y. A low-pressure tank was constructed to simulate altitudes up to 80,000 feet, and some studies were conducted at Pikes Peak.

Maj. James H. Doolittle elected president of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences IAS .

First glide flight of AAFNACA XS-1 rocket research airplane (No. 1 of the original three Bell X-1 X-1 's built), by Jack Woolams, Bell Aircraft test pilot, at Pinecastle Army Air Base, Fla.

''RELEASE: 10-340'' ''NASA DISCOVERS ASTEROID DELIVERED ASSORTMENT OF METEORITES'' WASHINGTON -- An international team of scientists studying remnants of an asteroid that crashed into the Nubian Desert in October 2008 discovered it contained at least 10 different types of meteorites. Some of them contained chemicals that form the building blocks of life on Earth, and those chemicals were spread ...

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... prepared the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing NASA (effective Oct. 1, 1958). Before passage of the Space Act July 29, 1958, the Senate created the permanent Committee on ... 10 Jan 11 1973 11 Jan 12 1973 12 Jan 13 1973 13 Jan 14 1973 14 Jan 15 1973 15 Jan 16 1973 16 Jan 17 1973 17 Jan 18 1973 18 Jan 19 1973 19 Jan 20 1973 20 Jan ...

... launch from Cape Canaveral , Fla., on a Jupiter C vehicle at 10:48pm EST, Jan. 31, 1958, had come 45 days after DOD had given the Army the go-ahead to prepare ... 10 Jan 11 1978 11 Jan 12 1978 12 Jan 13 1978 13 Jan 14 1978 14 Jan 15 1978 15 Jan 16 1978 16 Jan 17 1978 17 Jan 18 1978 18 Jan 19 1978 19 Jan 20 1978 20 Jan 21 1978 21 Jan 22 ...

... Director. NASC had been created under the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 , enacted July 29, 1958. Provisions of the plan would take effect July 1 unless Congress acted against the ... 10 Jan 11 1973 11 Jan 12 1973 12 Jan 13 1973 13 Jan 14 1973 14 Jan 15 1973 15 Jan 16 1973 16 Jan 17 1973 17 Jan 18 1973 18 Jan 19 1973 19 Jan 20 1973 20 Jan 21 ...

... . satellite, Explorer I , launched by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jan. 31, 1958. The U.S. and the Western world had entered an age of space with the ... 10 Jan 11 1973 11 Jan 12 1973 12 Jan 13 1973 13 Jan 14 1973 14 Jan 15 1973 15 Jan 16 1973 16 Jan 17 1973 17 Jan 18 1973 18 Jan 19 1973 19 Jan 20 1973 20 Jan 21 ...

... , Jan 14/93, Jan 18/93; USA Today, Jan 11/93, Jan 13/93, Jan 14/93, Jan 18/93, Jan 19/93; W Times, Jan 11/93, Jan 14/93; AP, Jan 11/93, Jan 12/93, Jan 13/93, Jan 14/93, Jan 19/93; W Post, Jan 14/93; UPI, Jan ... since 1958 worldwide had not a surprisingly strong El Nino brought warming effects. The eruptions may also have increased the ozone hole over the Antarctic, the scientists reported. (W Post, Jan 14 ...

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