Dec 13 1958

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U.N. General Assembly adopted resolution bringing into being an 18-member Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Squirrel monkey Gordo made 1,500-mile flight in nose cone of Army Jupiter with no known adverse effects, but float mechanism failed and nose cone was not recovered.