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... Challenge at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams are from 23 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as well as competitors from several different ... for best overall performance. The Rover Challenge highlights NASA’s goals for future exploration to Mars and beyond. Inspired by the lunar roving vehicles of the Apollo moon missions, the competition ...

... West Coast''' Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA’s next mission to Mars - the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft (InSight) from Vandenberg Air ... marsquakes to develop a map of the planet’s deep interior. The resulting insight into Mars’ formation will help us better understand how other rocky planets, including Earth, were and are ...

Parachute Jump from 23,700 feet made by Lt. A. G. Hamilton (USA) at Chanute Field, Ill.

Media:84-03-23.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

Media:1949-03-23_V4I12LARC1945.pdf Langley Air Scoop March 23 1945

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Report No. 150 on "Jet Propulsion for Airplanes," by Edgar Buckingham of the Bureau of Standards, pointed out that jet fuel consumption would be four times that of propeller engine at 250 mph, but that efficiency of jet increased at higher speeds.

Inventor of sodium-filled valves for internal combustion engines, S. D. Heron, granted exclusive license for manufacture to Rich Tool Co., later part of Eaton Manufacturing Co.

Two-place glider altitude record of 44,000 feet claimed by L. Edgar and H. Klieforth, Sacramento, Calif.

Navy demonstrated first dummy test of Polaris missile from "popup" launcher off San Clemente Island, from submerged launching platform.

Wernher von Braun born.

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