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Thor and Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM's ordered into production for ultimate deployment by the USAF.

An ANP (Aircraft, Nuclear Powered) project, an integrated AEC-DOD atomic aircraft project within the AEC, was announced, with Maj. Gen. Donald Keirn (USAF) as its head.

“The USSR Celebrates – Sputnik II in Air – Vast Display in Moscow”, cover picture of Wernher von Braun with Moon Rocket Model in Life Magazine

The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted Resolution 1148 (XII), calling, in part, for "the joint study of an inspection system designed to ensure that the sending of objects through outer space shall be exclusively for peaceful and scientific purposes." ''John Michael Kemp, Evolution Toward a Space Treaty: An Historical Analysis (NASA HHN-64, 1967), pp. 8-9.''

Aerobee-Hi No. 41 fired at White Sands reached speed of 4,900 mph and an altitude of 193 miles. Naval Aviation Medical Center at Pensacola was commissioned, combining the clinical, training, and research functions of the Naval School of Aviation Medicine and the Pensacola Naval Hospital.

U.S.S.R. invaded Finland, Soviet planes bombing Helsinki and other Finnish towns.

Italian jet-propelled Caproni-Campini airplane flown 475 kilometers in 2 hours 11 minutes from Turin to Rome, by Mario de Barnardini.

Department of Aviation Medicine and Physiological Research was authorized at NAMC Philadelphia.

Curtiss-Wright demonstrated its new reversible-pitch propellers which enabled a C-54 to make a controlled descent from 15,000 to 1,000 feet in 1 minute 22 seconds.

Martin TM-61 Matador , a jet-propelled missile, completed final test flight and became USAF's first tactical missile.

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