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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.

First flight of airplane powered by propeller-turbine engines, made in England by experimental Gloster Meteor powered with Rolls Royce Trent-engines with five-bladed propellers.

USAF made first successful recovery of animals from a rocket flight when an instrumented monkey and 11 mice survived an Aerobee flight to an altitude of 230,000 feet from Holloman AFB .

First Jupiter C (a three-stage ABMA-JPL Redstone missile ) was launched at Cape Canaveral , Fla., attained an altitude of 680 miles and traveled 3,300 miles downrange.

Paul Wappler in Spandau receives a German patent for a reaction powered airship.

The Daily Express newspaper in England runs an article on their front page after interviewing Philip Ellaby Cleator who has been trying to get the public involved in the new science of rocketry. The article spurs interest in Cleator's plans to found a new society. This eventually becomes the British Interplanetary Society .

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-193 NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO KICK OFF AVIATION FORUM'' WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is scheduled to open the "New Horizons in Aviation Forum" at 12:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 22, at the Virginia Beach, Va., Convention Center. The two-day conference about the future of aviation is sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( ...

''RELEASE: 12-318 FIRST MOBILE NASA APP AND QUAKESIM SHARE AGENCY'S 2012 SOFTWARE AWARD'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's first mobile application and software that models the behavior of earthquake faults to improve earthquake forecasting and our understanding of earthquake processes are co-winners of NASA's 2012 Software of the Year Award. The award recognizes innovative software technologies that ...

''RELEASE: 10-240'' ''NASA PARTNERSHIP SENDS EARTH SCIENCE DATA TO AFRICA'' WASHINGTON -- A unique partnership between NASA and agencies in Africa and Europe has sent more than 30 terabytes of free Earth science satellite data to South African researchers to support sustainable development and environmental applications in Africa. The data from one of the instruments on NASA's Terra satellite ...

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