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In level flight over a 10-mile course at Edwards AFB , Calif., Capt. Walter W. Irwin (USAF), flying a F-104A Starfighter, set a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.

Phase I development contract for Dyna-Soar boost-glide orbital spacecraft awarded by USAF to two teams of contractors beaded by Martin Co. (Bell, American Machine & Foundry, Bendix , Goodyear, and Minneapolis-Honeywell) and the Boeing Co. (Aerojet, General Electric, Ramo-Wooldridge, North American. and Chance Vought ). Pacific Missile Range , Point Mugu, Calif., officially ...

Two Thor shots, one from Cape Canaveral and one from Vandenberg AFB , were successful. Intermediate range ballistic missile portion of PMR was inaugurated with successful tiring of USAF Thor from Vandenberg AFB . MATS C-133 Cargomaster lifted 117,900 pounds of cargo to 10,000 feet, a weight-lifting record, at Dover AFB, Del.

U.S. Public Health Service initiated aerial survey of the Mississippi Valley watershed.

Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Mass., which traveled 184 feet in 21/2 seconds. This event was the "Kitty Hawk" of rocketry.

Robert H. Goddard 's classic report on "Liquid Propellant Rocket Development," reviewing his liquid-fuel rocket research and flight testing since 1919, was published by the Smithsonian Institution.

First civilian casualties in Britain due to air raids, during Luftwaffe attack on Scapa Flow.

First experimental track-type landing gear delivered to USAF received by 314th Troop Carrier Wing from Fairchild Aviation Corp. for installation on C-82 aircraft.

''RELEASE: 11-077 EXPEDITION 26 CREW AND CAPSULE LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN'' WASHINGTON -- Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Wednesday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station . Kaleri, the Soyuz commander, was at the ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-045 LAUNCH OF NASA'S NUSTAR MISSION POSTPONED'' WASHINGTON -- The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting. The launch will be rescheduled to allow additional time to confirm the flight software used by the launch vehicle's flight computer will issue commands to the rocket as ...

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