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Thor-Able reentry test vehicle made another successful 6,000-mile flight ; the nose cone and mouse passenger were not recovered. July 23-31: Feasibility of creating or destroying cloud formations by release of carbon black was established in tests conducted off Florida coast by the Navy Weather Service's Comdr. N. Brango and Dr. Florence Van Straten.

Senate established Standing Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences.

EXPLORER IV , fourth U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY satellite, successfully launched by Army Jupiter-C . Capt. Ivan C. Kincheloe (USAF) killed when F-104 crashed at Edwards AFB . He had been. scheduled to test-fly the X-15 . July 26-27: Comdrs. M. Ross and L. Lewis (USN) reached maximum altitude of 82,000 feet in STRATO-LAB HIGH III flight from Crosby, Minn., which ...

President Eisenhower requested $125 million to initiate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Successful proof tests subjecting humans to over 20 times the force of gravity were conducted, with National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's Maxime Faget conceiving concept of the contour couch on centrifuge at Navy AMAL, Johnsville, Pa. This couch became integral part ...

In an article for the Palm Beach Post Wernher von Braun explains that his interest in rocketry was triggered by the exploits of Max Valier and Fritz von Opel and their rocket cars.

First domestic jet airline passenger service, by National Airlines between New York and Miami.

The London Times story "Avro Arrow's 1,000 MPH in Climb", reporting on the high performance of the Canadian built CF-105 interceptor.

The Second International Symposium on the Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere And Space begins at the Hilton Hotel in San Antonio Texas.

Naval Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, tested sextant equipped with a pendulum-type artificial horizon and reported that pendulum type was unsatisfactory for aircraft use, but that a sextant with a gyroscopically stabilized artificial horizon might be acceptable.

Convair B-58 Hustler publicly unveiled for the first time.

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