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Acting in response to a request from BuAer, the Navy Bureau of Engineering endorsed support for the National Bureau of Standards for the development of radio meteorographs. Later renamed radiosondes, these instruments were sent aloft on free balloons to measure pressure, temperature, and humidity of the upper atmosphere, and transmitted these data to ground stations for use in weather forecasting ...

Robert T. Jones, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley aeronautical scientist, formulated sweptback-wing concept to overcome shockwave effects at critical Mach numbers, and verified it in wind-tunnel experiments in March 1945 prior to learning of parallel German work. It was subsequently checked by the wing-flow technique before the first National Advisory Committee for ...

ICBM Scientific Advisory Committee to the Air Force was transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense to assure common interchange of technical information on all missile programs.

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-058'' ''NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR JPSS-1 SPACECRAFT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. This is a fixed price contract of $248 million with a performance period through Feb. 1 ...

''RELEASE: 13-026 - MARTIAN CRATER ONCE MAY HAVE HELD GROUNDWATER-FED LAKE'' --PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. The new information comes from researchers analyzing spectrometer data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which looked ...

Hermann Koelle delivers talk to the GfW in Stuttgart titled "Dusenflugzeuge und Grossraketen"

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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 ...

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