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Germans successfully launched A-9 missile A-9 , a winged prototype of the first ICBM (the A-10 missile A-10 ) designed to reach North America. A-4 missile A-4 reached a peak altitude of nearly 50 miles and a maximum speed of 2,700 mph.

An article appears in the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper about the previous night's lecture by Dr J.W. Campbell of the University of Alberta in which he implied that spaceflight may be an engineering impossibility.

The Daily Express newspaper features an article by William Hickey entitled "Trying for the Moon". It covers the efforts of the BIS Technical committee and their design for a manned lunar spacecraft.

''RELEASE: 13-029 - NASA JOINS ESA'S 'DARK UNIVERSE' MISSION'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Euclid will launch in 2020 and spend six years mapping the locations and measuring the shapes of as many as 2 billion galaxies spread over more than ...

''RELEASE 18-005'' '''Spinoff 2018 Highlights Space Technology Improving Life on Earth''' The 2018 edition of NASA’s annual Spinoff publication, released Tuesday, features 49 technologies the agency helped create that are used in almost every facet of modern life. These include innovations that help find disaster survivors trapped under rubble, purify air and surfaces to stop the spread of ...

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... the status of U.S. satellite and missile programs. Hearings led to establishment Feb. 6, 1958, of the Senate Special Committee on Space and Astronautics with Johnson as Chairman. The Special ... 14 Jan 15 1973 15 Jan 16 1973 16 Jan 17 1973 17 Jan 18 1973 18 Jan 19 1973 19 Jan 20 1973 20 Jan 21 1973 21 Jan 22 1973 22 Jan 23 1973 23 Jan 24 1973 24 Jan 25 ...

... launch from Cape Canaveral , Fla., on a Jupiter C vehicle at 10:48pm EST, Jan. 31, 1958, had come 45 days after DOD had given the Army the go-ahead to prepare ... 14 Jan 15 1978 15 Jan 16 1978 16 Jan 17 1978 17 Jan 18 1978 18 Jan 19 1978 19 Jan 20 1978 20 Jan 21 1978 21 Jan 22 1978 22 Jan 23 1978 23 Jan 24 1978 24 Jan 25 1978 25 Jan 26 ...

... Director. NASC had been created under the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 , enacted July 29, 1958. Provisions of the plan would take effect July 1 unless Congress acted against the ... 14 Jan 15 1973 15 Jan 16 1973 16 Jan 17 1973 17 Jan 18 1973 18 Jan 19 1973 19 Jan 20 1973 20 Jan 21 1973 21 Jan 22 1973 22 Jan 23 1973 23 Jan 24 1973 24 Jan 25 ...

... . satellite, Explorer I , launched by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jan. 31, 1958. The U.S. and the Western world had entered an age of space with the ... 14 Jan 15 1973 15 Jan 16 1973 16 Jan 17 1973 17 Jan 18 1973 18 Jan 19 1973 19 Jan 20 1973 20 Jan 21 1973 21 Jan 22 1973 22 Jan 23 1973 23 Jan 24 1973 24 Jan 25 ...

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