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NASA created a committee to study problems of long-range lunar exploration to be headed by Dr. Robert Jastrow. ABMA Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM made successful 1,500-mile flight at Cape Canaveral and was declared operational by the USAF. NASA awarded contract to Convair for development of Vega launch vehicle for deep space probes and satellites.

... 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

... 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

... had been a pilot in the U.S. Air Force from 1'956 to 1959. (NASA anno May 5/78) Dryden Flight Research Center reported it had aborted the first design limit test ... May 1978 May May 1 1978 1 May 2 1978 2 May 3 1978 3 May 4 1978 4 May 5 1978 5 May 6 1978 6 May 7 1978 7 May 8 1978 8 May 9 1978 9 May 10 1978 10 May 11 1978 11 May 12 1978 12 May 13 1978 13 May 14 1978 14 May 15 ...

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

LUNIK I transmissions ceased 373,125 miles from earth. Media:MAR-1959-01-05.pdf Missiles & Rockets Jan 5 1959

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