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Three Soviet fliers established world distance nonstop record, flying across the North Pole from Moscow to San Jacinto, Calif., in 62 hours.

Japanese began aerial bombing of Chinese cities.

BIS member S. Klemantaski delivers lecture "Spectroscopic Application in Astronomy" to the membership at the Mason's Arms pub in London.

The Toronto Star runs a feature article on rocket space travel. It includes an interview with G. Edward Pendray of the American Rocket Society , a picture of Canadian engineer Maurice Poirier standing next to his model rocket, a solid fuel rocket launch carrying mail to the Isle of Wight in England and a staged image of a group of girls in bathing costumes posing with a fake rocket on ...

Brig. Gen. William Mitchell led 17 bombers in "raid" over New York.

Bumper No. 7 was the second missile launch from Cape Canaveral . reached highest velocity (Mach 9) attained by a manmade object to date.

President endorsed USNC- International Geophysical year IGY earth satellite proposal and the White House announced that "The President has approved plans by this country for going ahead with the launching of small, unmanned, earth-circling satellites as part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year which takes place between July 1957 and December 195S." Scientific ...

President Eisenhower signed H.R. 12575, making it the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-568). In his statement, he said: "The present National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA ) with its large and competent staff and well-equipped laboratories will provide the nucleus for NASA. The National Advisory Committee for ...

Two-stage Nike-Asp fired from Naval Missile Facility, Point Arguello, the first of 12 designed to record radiation 150 miles up and also the first ballistic missile fired from this new facility.

''RELEASE 13-237'' '''NASA's Chandra Sees Eclipsing Planet in X-rays for First Time''' For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star. An advantageous alignment of a planet and its parent star in the system HD 189733, which is 63 light-years ...

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