December 1957
From The Space Library
Maxime Faget of NACA Langley proposed ballistic shape of Mercury capsule, while Alfred Eggers of Ames and E. S. Love and J. V. Becker of Langley proposed glider configurations of manned spacecraft later incorporated in Dyna-Soar and Apollo studies.
“New Chart for Watchers of the Skies” article appears in National Geographic Magazine
The Martin Company proposed to the Department of Defense (DOD) that a stage of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile be combined with the Vanguard rocket to provide a launch vehicle capable of placing an instrument package into lunar orbit and, ultimately, on the lunar surface.
The Martin Company, Lunar Vehicle (1957), p. 2.
