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NASA announced training program for seven Project Mercury astronauts to provide them with technical knowledge and skills required to pilot the Nation's manned orbital capsule. University of Minnesota scientist under ONR contract launched unmanned balloon to 100,000 feet, where first positive measurement of intense solar protons associated with a solar flare was made. USAF Thor launched ...

... Office of Aeronautical and Space Research. ''Minutes, Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight, May 25-26, 1959, pp. 1-2.'' The national booster program, Dyna-Soar , and Project Mercury were discussed ... Research, "Interim Report on Operations of 'Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight' " July 17. 1959.'' Media:MAR-1959-05-25.pdf Missiles & Rockets May 25 1959

... , would probably have low resolution owing to the distance from the lunar surface. On June 12, Rosen described a new television system which could be used for early attempts at lunar ... to that of the Eastman Kodak camera system. ''Memoranda, Rosen to A. Silverstein, "Lunar Photography," May 9, 1959; Rosen to Silverstein, "Lunar Photography, Revisions to Memorandum of May 9, 1959," June 12, 1959.''

... . Compared to taking picture of golf ball 800 miles away, this feat was repeated on May 3 and 4. The Army Ordnance Missile Command submitted to NASA a report entitled "Preliminary ... Division Chiefs, Goddard Space Flight Center , "Organization and Functions of the Goddard Space Flight Center ," May 1, 1959, with attachment: Abe Silverstein , Director of Space Flight Development, "Organization of Activities of Goddard ...

National Bureau of Standards released details on the effect on the ionosphere of the high-altitude nuclear shots called Teak and Orange on August 1 and 12, 1958, over Johnston Island. “Physicist James Van Allen ” article in Time Magazine Media:MAR-1959-05-04.pdf Missiles & Rockets May 4 1959

... in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific purposes." Media:MAR-1959-05-18.pdf Missiles & Rockets May 18 1959

H. Rept. 353, Committee on Science and Astronautics, “U.S. Policy on the Control and Use of Outer Space” published. Media:MAR-1959-05-11.pdf Missiles & Rockets May 11 1959

... possibility of an advanced manned spacecraft. ''Memorandum, Purser to Gilruth, "Log for the Week of May 25, 1959," p. 2.''

NASA announced selection of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., as source for design, development, and construction of Mercury capsule. Media:MAR-1959-01-12.pdf Missiles & Rockets Jan 12 1959

Media:MAR-1959-10-12.pdf Missiles & Rockets Oct 12 1959

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