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First successful launching by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley's Aircraft Research Division of a Mach 18 five-stage rocket vehicle at Wallops Island, Va. USAF strategic missile squadron successfully completed first military launch of a Snark intercontinental missile at Cape Canaveral .

EXPLORER III reentered the earth's atmosphere.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA reported that 50 percent of its research effort was being devoted to problems associated with missiles and space vehicles.

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.

Guglielmo Marconi of Italy stated that an apparatus could be designed to transmit radio waves from one ship in any desired direction and pick up reflections from another ship in a receiver, a device which would "thereby Immediately reveal the presence and bearing of the other ship in fog or thick weather." Christian Huelsmeyer of Germany received a patent in 1904 on boat equipment which used ...

Air Force confirmed repeated attainment of supersonic speeds by Bell X-1 X-1 (formerly XS-1) flown by Capt. Charles. B. Yeager .

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA made "Round Three" presentation on a boost-glide research airplane to Air Research and Development Command ARDC .

The REP-Hirsch prize is awarded to Pierre Montagne of the French school of Mines for calculating the driving force of combustible fluids.

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