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... , member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA from its beginning in 1915 to 1939, and Chairman of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA from 1927 until ...

... science operations and was intentionally sent into the lunar surface, impacting the moon on April 17, 2014. The spacecraft's orbit naturally decayed following the mission's final low-altitude science ... (HTV)-5 to the International Space Station to 7:50 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 19. NASA Television will carry live coverage of the event beginning at 7 a.m ... of the HTV-5 now is scheduled for approximately 6:55 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24. NASA TV coverage will begin at 5:15 a.m. Installation coverage will now ...

... Ice-Monitoring Mission''' NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 22, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat ... and affiliation to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov by 10 a.m. Aug. 22. Questions also can be submitted during the teleconference via Twitter using the hashtag askNASA ...

AAF Schweinfurt-Regensburg deep-penetration daylight raid by 370 B-17's, with heavy loss of 60 bombers. August 17-18: Royal Air Force attacked Germany's Peenemünde Rocket Research Center, causing heavy damage and delaying V-weapon program by weeks or months.

... Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi landed their Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft in Kazakhstan Tuesday, June 1, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay ... astronaut Noguchi will return to Houston on Wednesday. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21, 2009. As members of the ... between their Soyuz and the station are opened at 8:34 p.m. on June 17 (2:34 a.m. June 18 in Moscow). -end- ''RELEASE: 10-073'' ''CREW LIFTS OFF ...

Assignment of Navy medical officer to BuAer was approved for the purpose of establishing an Aviation Medical Research Unit.

First complete flights of jet-propelled aircraft mode secretly in Germany, a Heinkel 178 powered by the He S-3B jet engine, piloted by Erich Warsitz. Arthur C. Clarke attends a Science Fiction Association meeting. SFA

The Evening Standard newspaper features a report on the BIS lunar spacecraft but includes errors. The reporter omitted references to landing by parachute and implied the occupant would only get broken legs from the landing. A claim which Arthur C. Clarke would late comment in the Bulletin of the BIS was "definitely excluded from our schedule."

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, Chairman of a Sub-committee on Imperial Defence, submitted classic proposal for creation of an autonomous air force in the British military structure.

American-designed bomber, Army Martin MB-1, made its first flight with T. E. Springer as pilot. It became the first standard bomber of the Air Service but did not enter combat, while later modifications of it were used by the Post Office Department.

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