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USAF Thor-Able -1 launch vehicle with first U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY lunar payload exploded 77 seconds after launch because of a failure of first-stage engine.

Joint NASA- Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA Manned Satellite Panel established to make final recommendation for manned space flight program.

NASA awarded contract to Rocketdyne of North American to build single-chamber 1.5-million-pound-thrust rocket engine. The H-1 engine successfully completed its first full-power firing at North American Aviation NAA 's Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, Calif. Entire USAF Atlas missile Atlas boosted into orbit communications relay satellite, PROJECT SCORE or the "talking ...

First USN carrier takeoff by Lt. V. C. Griffin in Vought VE-7SF, from U.S.S. Langley.

Piloting a Sikorsky XH-39, Warrant Officer Billy I. Wester, USA, established a world helicopter altitude record of 24,500 feet at Bridgeport, Conn.

A second powered free flight of the X-15 (No. 2) research airplane accomplished most planned objectives.

Time Magazine runs article ''Science: Out Across Immensity'' about the British Interplanetary Society 's research into high altitude flight.

''Release 14-287'' '''New Commercial Rocket Descent Data May Help NASA with Future Mars Landings''' NASA successfully captured thermal images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its descent after it launched in September from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The data from these thermal images may provide critical engineering information for future missions to the surface of Mars. " ...

Arthur C. Clarke writing to his friend Sam Youd tells him he has had to take leave from his government job to be able to handle the work on the Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society .

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