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... Public Television’s studios in Johnston, Iowa. Whitson launched to the space station on Nov. 17 and will live aboard until the spring. Media interested in covering the event should ... cantillo@nasa.gov. New Horizons team members also will be available for interviews through Friday, Jan. 20. Media should contact Michael Buckley in APL Public Affairs at (240) 228-7536 or ...

New official American one man duration record of 8 hours 53 minutes set by Lt. B. Q. Jones in a Martin tractor biplane at San Diego, Calif. First transcontinental telephone conversation, New York to San Francisco, by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

First German aerial bombing of Britain, by two Zeppelins, thereby opening up a new era in the exploitation of aeronautics. During World War I, a total of 50 tons of aerial bombs was dropped on London and 214 tons on the rest of Britain.

First launching of a test model towed by a rocket vehicle with a flexible towline, by Langley Laboratory's PARD at Wallops Island, Va.

First launch of Navy Polaris test vehicle at Cape Canaveral .

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."

RELEASE: 12-019 MONTANA STUDENTS SUBMIT WINNING NAMES FOR NASA LUNAR SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year& 39;s Eve and New Year& 39;s Day have new names thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Montana. Their winning entry, "Ebb and Flow," was selected as part of a nation-wide school contest that began in October 2011. The names ...

''Release 16-006'' '''Jason-3 Launches to Monitor Global Sea Level Rise''' Jason-3, a U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation that will continue a nearly quarter-century record of tracking global sea level rise, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Sunday at 10:42 a.m. PST (1:42 p.m. EST) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Jason-3 is an ...

Arthur C. Clarke writes to his friend Sam Youd to tell him he is reading Robert Esnault-Pelterie 's book L'Astronautique. "It takes me about a day to read a page."

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