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... engineer Suni Williams aboard the International Space Station at 11:05 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 28. Media representatives are invited to attend the event. Students will ask NASA's Williams ... and NSIDC scientists, was 1.58 million square miles (4.10 million square kilometers), or 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) below the Sept. 18, 2007, daily extent of ... , international media representatives who want to cover the SCA arrival must apply for credentials by Aug. 29. For U.S. journalists, the application deadline is Sept. 7. ''RELEASE: 12-297 NASA ...

... robotically to the Earth-facing docking port on the station's Harmony module on Jan. 27. The second European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, named for famed mathematician and astronomer Johannes ... March. Before departing, Kelly will hand over command of the station to Kondratyev for Expedition 27 NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev will join Coleman ...

August 27-28: Capt. L. H. Smith and Lt. J. P. Richter flew a DH-4B-Liberty 400 to a world refueled duration record of 37 hours and 15 minutes, as well as a distance record of 3,293 miles at Rockwell Field, San Diego, Calif.

Media:82-08-27.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

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

First static firing of Thor rocket engine at AFFTC, Edwards AFB .

The first Project Argus Argus experiment ( Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA )) was conducted (based upon October 1957 proposal of N. C. Christofilos of the University of California, Livermore), in which a small A-bomb was detonated beyond the atmosphere over the South Atlantic. Launched from the rocketship Norton Sound, the initial flash was followed by an auroral luminescence ...

Satellite tracking station at Woomera, Australia, successfully photographed EXPLORER VI at a distance of 14,000 miles. First British Commonwealth Symposium on Space Flight began in London.

The GG-1, the first Soviet gas generator designed by Valentin P. Glushko completes testing.

''Release 15-178'' '''NASA Concludes Series of Engine Tests for Next-Gen Rocket''' NASA has completed the first developmental test series on the RS-25 engines that will power the agency’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on missions deeper into space than ever before. The test series wrapped up Thursday with a seventh hot fire test of a developmental RS-25 engine on the A-1 Test Stand at ...

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