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Largest plastic balloon to date (6 million cubic feet) launched by Office of Naval Research with 173 pounds of instruments, at Fort Churchill, Canada. Media:MAR-1959-07-13.pdf Missiles & Rockets Jul 13 1959

White Sands Proving Ground (WSPG) was activated. Media:1945-07-13_V4I29LARC1945.pdf Langley Air Scoop July 13 1945

July 13-21: In a series of Army-Navy bombing tests off the Virginia Capes, airplanes sank the captured German destroyer G-102, light cruiser Frankfort, and battleship Oatfriesland.

Cdr. J. 0. Hunsaker (USN) elected Honorary Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society of England. the first time this distinction was conferred on one not a British subject.

First Convair MX-774 (RTVA-2) test rocket was successfnlly launched, first demonstrating use of gimballed engines and design features later incorporated in the Atlas ICBM. This was the first of three Convair-sponsored test flights.

The Sachsenwerk in Niedersedlitz near Dresden is granted a German patent for rockets with parachutes.

The New York Herald Tribune runs article "Guggenheim Financial Aid For Goddard Rocket Study Gives New Hope to Man's Efforts to Conquer Gravity". The article is written by David Lasser of the American Interplanetary Society .

''RELEASE: 11-226 NASA SUPPORTS COMPETITION TO CREATE OUT OF THIS WORLD T-SHIRT DESIGN WASHINGTON -'' NASA, through the Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory, is supporting an online challenge for artists to design a T-shirt commemorating the final space shuttle mission and the program's contributions to exploration. The challenge is run by Threadless, an online design site, and the Harvard-NASA ...

''RELEASE: 12-234 NASA SELECTS SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM ADVANCED BOOSTER PROPOSALS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected six proposals to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of an advanced booster for the Space Launch System (SLS). The awardees will develop engineering demonstrations and risk reduction concepts for SLS, a heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new capability ...

''RELEASE: 10-344'' ''NASA SELECTS COMPANIES FOR FURTHER LUNAR DEMONSTRATIONS DATA'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has issued delivery orders to three companies as part of its Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) project. Each order is worth $500,000 and will help develop vehicle capabilities and demonstrate end-to-end robotic lunar landing missions. The three companies selected are: -- Astrobotic ...

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