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Media:1948-04-23 I16V07.pdf Langley Air Scoop Apr 23 1948

... Jim Bridenstine as NASA’s new administrator at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 23, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. The ceremony will air live on NASA Television ... Feustel, Scott Tingle, and Ricky Arnold who are onboard the International Space Station, Monday, April 23, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Bridenstine was just sworn in by the Vice President ...

The Secretary of War called the first meeting of the NACA in his office. Brig. Gen. George P. Scriven, Chief Signal Officer, was elected temporary Chairman, and Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was elected first Chairman of the important NACA Executive Committee. American altitude record of 10,000 feet for seaplanes was established in Burgess-Dunne AH-10 by Lt. P ...

First oversea shipment of Liberty motors arrived at assembly and repair station at Pauillac, France.

Aerial photo survey of Dominican Republic coastline completed by First Air Squadron of the USMC ; and in June, it completed aerial survey of Haitian coastline.

Army informed the OSD that a Jupiter missile could be tired in an effort to orbit a small satellite in January 1957.

Details of X-15 rocket research airplane were publicly revealed for the first time.

USAF Thor-Able missile was launched from Cape Canaveral in a reentry test ; flew short of its goal and the nose cone was not recovered. The nose cone carried a mouse as a biomedical experiment.

Fourth recovery of a data capsule at Atlantic Missile Range AMR , USAF Thor 1,500-mile accuracy test flight. President announced the resignation of Richard E. Horner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, to become Associate Administrator of NASA effective July 1st. First test flight of USAF GAM-77 Hound Dog at Atlantic Missile Range AMR .

''RELEASE: 12-128 CASSINI SPACECRAFT SEES NEW OBJECTS BLAZING TRAILS IN SATURN RING'' WASHINGTON -- Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange, half-mile-sized objects punching through one of Saturn's rings and leaving glittering trails behind them. The results will be presented tomorrow at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria. The ...

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