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January 26-27: Symposium on "The Scientific Uses of Earth Satellites" held at the University of Michigan under sponsorship of the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel, James A. Van Allen of the State University of Iowa, Chairman.

... winter conference of the GfW begins in Stuttgart. The main events of the conference: January 26, 1950: Lecture by Professor Dr. Werner Schaub: ''Das interplanetare Fahrwasser'' (The interplanetary fairway). The first ...

Post Office Department operated regular daily airmail routes over a distance of 3,460 miles.

Army announced creation by AAF of the First Experimental Guided Missiles Group to develop and test rocket missiles at Eglin Field, Fla. Naval Aviation Ordnance Test Station was established at NAAS Chincoteague to develop aviation ordnance and guided missiles.

First guided-missile test ship, U.S.S. Norton Sound, launched its first missile, a Loon, off NAMTC, Point Mugu, Calif.

Lawrence E. Manning writes letter to Philip Ellaby Cleator at the British Interplanetary Society in England telling him that the American Interplanetary Society is building two experimental rockets which they hope to fly in April of that year. Construction is being completed by G. Edward Pendray , Bernard Smith and Alfred Africano . The rocket 3 is built of aluminium ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-026'' ''NASA EXTENDS HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE OPERATIONS CONTRACT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has exercised an option to extend the period of performance of the contract with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for the Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Center located at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. This action will ...

Christian scholar and fiction writer C.S. Lewis writes his last known letter to Arthur C. Clarke . The correspondence began between the two authors in December 1943 on the subject of whether mankind should venture into space. Five days earlier Clarke had written to Lewis saying that he wished to finally meet Lewis. At a later date (probably also in 1954) the two met in the Eastgate pub ...

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... at SSC. Rudolphi had served as interim Director of SSC since May 2003 but had left the Center in December 2003 to become Manager of the Space Shuttle Propulsion Office at NASA ... 16 Jan 17 2004 17 Jan 18 2004 18 Jan 19 2004 19 Jan 20 2004 20 Jan 21 2004 21 Jan 22 2004 22 Jan 23 2004 23 Jan 24 2004 24 Jan 25 2004 25 Jan 26 2004 26 Jan 27 2004 27 Jan 28 ...

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