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International Geophysical year IGY Vanguard prototype (TV-2) with simulated second and third stage successfully met test objectives, by reaching 109-mile altitude and 4,250 mph.

Thor long-range flight test successful from AMR, impacting 2,645 miles downrange.

SPUTNIK I ceased transmissions. Soviet scientists predicted the batteries would only last three weeks. ''Globe and Mail''

Snark intercontinental missile launched from Cape Canaveral first flew 5,000 miles, to a target near Ascension Island.

“How An Earth Satellite is Placed in Orbit” article on Sputnik and Vanguard in the Illustrated London News. J. Allen Hyneck of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge Mass, says that the orbit of Sputnik 1 was calculated in 21 seconds by a computer at MIT. This calculation was only possible after painstaking observations by spotters around the world. The booster of ...

Soviet and Western scientists agree at a conference in Barcelona to swap data about satellites under the Project Moonwatch program. American reports state that small U.S. satellites will be launched in December, but fully equipped American satellites will not fly until March 1958. ''Globe and Mail''

Moscow Radio announces that the carrier rocket for Sputnik was also in orbit.

Royal Society holds a press conference about Sputnik where Sir Owen Wansborough-Jones, chief scientist to the British Ministry of Supply stated that although his department was contributing rocket technology to the IGY program, his ministry was not interested in satellites from a defence perspective.

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.

Reversible-pitch propeller tested at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio.

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