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The Second International Symposium on the Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere And Space begins at the Hilton Hotel in San Antonio Texas.

James A. Chamberlin Chief of Design at A.V. Roe Canada and one of the principle designers of the Avro Arrow and later the Gemini spacecraft, becomes an associate fellow of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute .

White Sands Proving Ground announced missile range firing record: 2,000 "hot" firings in 1 year. First Titan test launch exploded on the pad at Cape Canaveral . New voice and teletype messages were received and rebroadcast on commaad by PROJECT SCORE satellite, and a series of experiments were continued in subsequent days.

In an article for the Palm Beach Post Wernher von Braun explains that his interest in rocketry was triggered by the exploits of Max Valier and Fritz von Opel and their rocket cars.

Night photographs using 50-pound magnesium flares taken from Army Martin bomber by Lt. George W. Goddard, over Rochester, N.Y.

Navy established its own School of Aviation Medicine at Pensacola, Fla., having previously detailed officers to the Air Corps School of Aviation Medicine.

In a D-558-II (No. 2) which had been launched from a B-29. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA test pilot A. Scott Crossfield established an unofficial speed record of 1,328 mph at Edwards AFB , Calif., the first Mach 2 flight (2.01).

C.A. Cross talks to the Manchester chapter of the BIS about ''Extra-terrestrial Observatories''. D.A. Parish talks to the Leeds chapter about ''Space Vehicles''.

''Release 15-224'' '''NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station''' NASA took a significant step Friday toward expanding research opportunities aboard the International Space Station with its first mission order from Hawthorne, California based-company SpaceX to launch astronauts from U.S. soil. This is the second in a series of four guaranteed orders NASA will make under ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE C14-047'' '''NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Ionospheric Connection Explorer''' NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Virginia, to provide launch services for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission. ICON is targeted to launch in June 2017 from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands aboard a ...

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