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EXPLORER V successfully launched by ABMA-JPL Jupiter-C and all stages fired, but orbit not achieved because of collision between parts of booster aud instrument compartment.

First senior staff meeting of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) held, with Dr. T. Keith Glennan as Administrator, and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden as Deputy Administrator. KC-135 jet Stratotanker lifted 77,350-pound payload to an altitude of 1.25 miles. First use of Sidewinder aircraft rocket with heatseeker nose, by Chinese Nationalist F-86's over the ...

Dr. Herbert F. York, Chief Scientist of Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA , was named as Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense by President Eisenhower.

Lt. Col. William R. Lovelace , AAF Aeromedical Laboratory, made world record parachute jump from 40,200 feet at Ephrata, Wash.

Office of Naval Research approved program for high-altitude manned flight, Project Helios, based upon concept presented by Jean Piccard in February for using clustered plastic balloons.

First Nike-Deacon sounding rocket launched at Wallops Island in cooperative USAF- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA program of upper air density measurements.

The Bulletin of the BIS reports that the German rocket publication Das Neue Fahrzeug will no longer be shipped to BIS members.

''RELEASE: 10-059'' ''NASA AND NOAA'S GOES-P SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED'' CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:57 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite joins four ...

''RELEASE: 13-193 - NASA THRUSTER ACHIEVES WORLD-RECORD 5+ YEARS OF OPERATION'' --CLEVELAND -- A NASA advanced ion propulsion engine has successfully operated for more than 48,000 hours, or 5 and a half years, making it the longest test duration of any type of space propulsion system demonstration project ever. The thruster was developed under NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) Project at ...

''RELEASE 16-065'' '''Transportation Department, NASA, Partners Visit Charlotte to Open Test Lab to Streamline Air Travel''' U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden today were joined by representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), American Airlines, and the Charlotte Douglas ...

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