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... saying that he wished to finally meet Lewis. At a later date (probably also in 1954) the two met in the Eastgate pub in Oxford accompanied by Arthur Valentine Cleaver Val ... 's global best-seller ''The Lord of the Rings'', which first appeared in July of 1954.

... have weighed 500,000 lbs with a volume of 20,000 cu ft. In late 1954 Ehricke left Bell for a position at Convair. He then presented his design to the ...

USAF Western Development Division (became Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in 1957) established at Inglewood, Calif., under Brig Gen. Bernard A. Schriever , with authority to direct the ballistic missile development program authorized by June 1954 directives.

$500 million was added to the current year's budget for the guided-missile program. (In fiscal year 1950 through 1954, $700 million was spent.) Arthur C. Clarke and Ralph A. Smith begin three part series in '''Everybody's Magazine''' entitled "Conquest of the Moon". Patrick Moore delivers talk ''The Planet Mars'' to the BIS in Birmingham England.

file=Disney_marsvr.mov width=400 height=500 autoplay=true 3D Rendering of the Ernst Stuhlinger Mars vessel and lander VR (circa 1954) (with bottle suits) (Requires Quicktime browser plug-in) Category:Quicktime VR spacecraft

First atomic-power submarine, U.S.S. Nautilus, launched at Groton, Conn.

Pan American World Airways took over operations and maintenance of the Florida Missile Test Range, under AFMTC; changeover completed in March.

Air Force Strategic Missiles Evaluation (Teapot) Committee under Dr. John von Neumann reported possibility of major technological breakthrough on nuclear warhead size and that other technical problems associated with development of ICBM's could be resolved in a few years. It recommended that a special Air Force development-management group be established to accelerate the program.

First flight test of a high-energy fuel made by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Lewis Laboratory in an air-launched test vehicle.

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