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Navy demonstrated first dummy test of Polaris missile from "popup" launcher off San Clemente Island, from submerged launching platform.

Third U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY Satellite, EXPLORER II a joint ABMA-JPL project, successfully launched by Army Juno II , yielded valuable data on radiation belt, micrometeorite impacts, and temperature before returning to earth on June 27. President Eisenhower in a brief statement released the President's Science Advisory Committee's report, "Introduction to Outer Space: ...

President Eisenhower gave his approval to the plans for outer space exploration announced by Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy. The Advanced Research Projects Agency ( Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA ) was to undertake several space projects including the launching of certain earth satellites and five space probes as a part of this country's contribution to the International ...

USAF KC-135 Stratotanker ended a nonstop, nonrefueled record distance jet flight of 10,228 miles, from Tokyo to Lajes Field, Azores.

Test firing of a full-scale upper stage rocket under simulated altitude conditions was made in an engine test celi at the USAF's Arnold Engineering Development Center at Tullahoma, Tenn.

First launching of a 10-inch diameter spherical rocket motor with spin stabilization, at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Wallops Island.

U.S.S.R. supplied telemetry code of SPUTNIK III to other International Geophysical year IGY members, covering only radiation measurements. In MAN HIGH III balloon launched from Holloman AFB , Lt. Clifton M. McClure attained a near-record altitude of 99,900 feet. An electronics show in Toronto Canada features an exhibit of the US Army's Explorer III and rocketry equipment ...

Second U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY space probe under direction of NASA with Air Force as executive agent, PIONEER II , was launched from AMR. Unseparated third and fourth stages reached an altitude of about 1,000 miles and flew some 7,500 miles before burning out.

The first meeting of the Canadian Astronautical Society takes place at de Havilland Missile Division in Downsview Ontario. Fourteen people attend and elect Philip A. Lapp as president.

First USAF unit of F-84 jet fighters formed which were capable of being launched and recovered by B-36 mother planes, the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron at Great Falls AFB.

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