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President Truman signed the Armed Forces Unification Act, creating a Department of the Air Force, coequal with Army and Navy, and creating a National Military Establishment under the Secretary of Defense.

Two separate rockets fired from White Sands, one a V-2 missile V-2 which reached an altitude of 00.3 miles, the other a Navy Aerobee which reached an altitude of 70 miles, carried cameras which photographed the curvature of the earth.

Aerobee fired capsule containing two monkeys and two mice to approximately 200,000 feet at Holloman AFB , all recovered unharmed.

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-031 NASA SELECTS CONTRACT FOR WATER AND WASTE WATER REVITALIZATION'' CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected RTD Construction, Inc., of Zephyrhills, Fla., to provide construction services for the revitalization of Kennedy Space Center's water distribution and waste water collection systems. The maximum potential value for the two-year fixed price contract is ...

''RELEASE: 10-010'' ''NASA NAMES NEW WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY DIRECTOR'' WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named William Wrobel as director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., and director of the center's Suborbital and Special Orbital Projects Directorate. This directorate manages the agency's sounding rockets and scientific ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M18-113'' '''NASA Administrator to Visit Langley Research Center July 31''' NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will make his first official visit to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Tuesday, July 31, to meet with employees and tour the facility. Media are invited to tour Langley’s Advanced Structures and Materials laboratory with the administrator. There ...

Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting. Says goodbye to his friends expecting it to be his last meeting due to being posted in RAF.

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