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Soviet newspaper, Vechernaya Moskva, announced that an interdepartmental commission for interplanetary communication bad been created to develop an earth satelllte, which would improve weather forecasting by taking photographs. This commission bad been established late in 1954.

Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration of the House of Representatives opened hearings on outer space leading toward formulation of a national space program.

Reinhold Tiling launches mail rockets at Osnabruck Germany. At least one reaches 6000 feet. The rockets then descended on unfolding wings like an autogyro.

Pravda publishes article "Traveling in Interplanetary Space" by M. Ya. Lapirov-Skoblo of the Moscow Polytechnical Museum.

In response to a request by the DOD-NASA) Saturn Ad Hoc Committee, the Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) sent a supplement to the "Saturn System Study" to the Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA describing the use of Titan for Saturn upper stages. On May 19, Roy W. Johnson, ARPA Director, notified AOMC that the Saturn second stage would be the first stage of the Titan . After ...

''RELEASE: 11-099 NASA RELEASES STATUS ON OPEN GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES'' WASHINGTON -- On the one year anniversary of NASA's Open Government Initiative, the agency is releasing a detailed assessment on the status of its projects to increase transparency and accountability to the American public. "We are creating new ways to engage the public in solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the ...

''RELEASE: 13-109 - NASA-FUNDED ASTEROID TRACKING SENSOR PASSES KEY TEST'' --PASADENA, Calif. -- An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test. The test assessed performance of the Near Earth Object Camera (NEOCam) in an environment that mimicked the temperatures and pressures of deep space. NEOCam is the ...

'''Mission Manager Update: Kepler Remains Stable as Health Check Continues''' The Kepler spacecraft remains stable as the process of returning it to science continues. The cause of the anomaly, first reported on April 8, remains under investigation. Since Sunday morning the spacecraft has remained safely "parked" in a stable pointed configuration called Point Rest State. In this state, fuel ...

Professor Arthur Low of the British Interplanetary Society appears on BBC radio in London.

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