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Air Service Medical Research Laboratory and School for Flight Surgeons was designated School of Aviation Medicine.

Secretary of the Navy approved Naval Ordnance Test Station to be located on west coast and to be under cognizance of BuOrd. In December, its site was selected at Inyokern, China Lake, Calif.

First jet airplane dogfight when USAF Lockheed F-80 piloted by Lt. J. R. Brown downed a Russian-built MiG-15 over Korea.

First successful launching of a research model propelled by the helium gun catapult, by Langley's PARD at Wallops Island.

Lt. Comdr. M. L. Lewis (USN) and Malcolm D. Ross established a world altitude record in a plastic STRATOLAB balloon by ascending to a height of 76,000 feet, taking off near Rapid City, S. Dak., and landing 175 miles away near Kennedy, Nebr., thus breaking the record of 72,394 feet set in 1935 by O. A. Anderson and A. W. Stevens.

Secretary of Defense McElroy directed the Department of the Army to launch a scientific satellite with the modified Jupiter-C test rocket. The satellite, carrying instruments selected by the National Academy of Sciences, would be a part of this country's contribution to the International Geophysical year IGY . William M. Holaday, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Guided Missiles, ...

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.

Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke delivers paper entitled ''Electronics and Space Flight'' at the monthly meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . The paper was reproduced in the March 1948 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

''RELEASE: 12-388 NASA SELECTS AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES FOR CONTINUATION OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 39 small business proposals to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The SBIR program partners with small businesses to catalyze efforts to develop new ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-085'' ''NASA TV AIRING U.S. ASTRONAUT HALL OF FAME INDUCTION ON JUNE 5'' CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame 2010 induction ceremony on Saturday, June 5, at 2:30 p.m. EDT. The ceremony will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Joining the hall of fame this year are former ...

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