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In a message to Congress on the organization of the Nation's Defense Establishment, President Eisenhower recommended creation of the position of Director of Defense Research and Engineering, which would have a higher rank and replace the present Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

USAF and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA jointly announce details on the inertial guidance system to be used on the X-15 research aircraft, a flight instrument system to allow the pilot to prevent the aircraft twin reentering dense atmosphere too steeply or too shallow.

By Executive Order, President Dwight D. Eisenhower transferred the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ), a government-owned facility staffed and operated by the California Institute of Technology, from Army to NASA jurisdiction. The new Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL radio telescope at Camp Irwin, Calif., called the Goldstone Tracking Facility , was capable of ...

The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or NACA) was established by a rider to the Naval Appropriations Act, ". . . to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view of their practical solution." The sum of $5,000 a year was appropriated for 5 years. The total appropriation for naval aeronautics was $1 ...

Symposium on space medicine held by the University of Illinois at its Professional Colleges in Chicago. A large crowd attends to hear the following speakers: Space Medicine in the United States Air Force, Major General Harry G. Armstrong USAF MC Multi-stage Rockets and Artificial Satellites, Wernher von Braun Physiological Considerations on the Possibility of Life Under Extraterrestrial ...

PIONEER IV , fourth U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY space probe, a joint ABMA-JPL project under direction of NASA, was launched by a Juno II rocket from Atlantic Missile Range AMR and achieved earth-moon trajectory, passing within 37,000 miles of the moon before going into permanent solar orbit. Radio contact was maintained to a record distance of 406,620 miles. It was the ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-010 NASA AWARDS SPACE NETWORK EXPANSION-EAST OPTION'' WASHINGTON -- NASA awarded the option for the Space Network Expansion-East, under the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment contract, to General Dynamics C4 Systems of Scottsdale, Ariz. The cost-plus-award fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity option has a total estimated value of $32.7 million. The period ...

''RELEASE: 12-071 "WE ARE THE EXPLORERS" VIDEO SHOWCASES LEGACY OF EXPLORATION, FUTURE NASA MISSIONS'' HOUSTON -- A new video produced by NASA and narrated by actor Peter Cullen of "Transformers" fame celebrates humankind's inherent need to explore through the past, present and future. "We Are the Explorers" shows how humanity constantly has reached for new heights, broken new boundaries and ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-076'' ''NASA SELECTS BOEING FOR ADVANCED AIRCRAFT VEHICLE CONCEPTS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a third contract for studies designed to identify advanced concepts for airliners that could enter service in 2025, fly with less noise, cleaner exhaust and lower fuel consumption. NASA refers to technology that is two generations more advanced than what is on aircraft in ...

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