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Bumper No. 8, a German V-2 missile V-2 with a 700-pound Army-JPL Wac Corporal , was fired from Long-Range Proving Ground at Cape Canaveral ; the first-stage V-2 missile V-2 climbed 10 miles separated from the second-stage Corporal which traveled 15 more miles. This was the first missile launch from Cape Canaveral .

Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, extending from Alaska's northwest coast eastward to Baffin Island, became operational. Falcon GAR-2A, heat-seeking infrared missile, tested successfully.

Senate established Standing Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences.

USAF Thor data capsule recovered near Antigua which contained movie film showing nose cone separation.

''RELEASE: 12-249 SATELLITES SEE UNPRECEDENTED GREENLAND ICE SHEET SURFACE MELT'' WASHINGTON -- For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its ...

Professor J.B.S. Haldane, an Oxford academic, writes an article "A Man Made Moon" for the Daily Worker newspaper. In this article he discusses the recently revealed plans for an orbiting space mirror proposed as a weapon of mass destruction by German scientists. Haldane dismisses the concept as being beyond current technology but in the process articulates that such a mirror would have to be ...

''Release 15-158'' '''NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto''' Flowing ice and a surprising extended haze are among the newest discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons mission, which reveal distant Pluto to be an icy world of wonders. “We knew that a mission to Pluto would bring some surprises, and now -- 10 days after closest approach -- we can say that our expectation has been ...

''RELEASE M13-117'' '''NASA Discusses First IRIS Solar Images in Media Teleconference''' WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 25, to present the first images from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which was launched June 27 on a mission to study the sun. After its telescope door opened July 17, IRIS's imaging spectrograph began to ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M18-114'' '''Watch This Space: NASA Administrator Talks Webb Science with Nobel Laureate''' NASA Television will air a conversation about the progress and promise of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with Nobel Prize winner John Mather at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 25. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen ...

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