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... of the event will air live on NASA TV and the agency’s website. ''RELEASE 18-052'' '''NASA, NSF Plunge Into Ocean ‘Twilight Zone’ to Explore Ecosystem Carbon Flow''' A large ... and how much will be transported to the ocean depths for the long term.” ''RELEASE 18-055'' '''NASA Administrator Statement on Space Policy Directive-3''' The following is a statement from ...

... MUSEUM EXHIBITS AND PLANETARIUM SHOWS'' WASHINGTON -- Exhibits, planetarium shows, and community-based programming are among 18 projects NASA has selected to receive agency funding in 2012. The projects consist of 11 ...

Lt. Apollo Soucek flew Navy Wright Apache landplane equipped with P&W 450-hp engine to height of 43,100 feet over NAS Anacostla, regaining world record he held briefly in 1929.

Article in the New York Times by Princeton professor John Q. Stewart about a possible flight to the moon.

German rocket pioneer Max Valier is granted Media:499199.pdf German patent 499199 for his rocket propelled automobile.

Robert Esnault-Pelterie of France applies for membership in the American Interplanetary Society . At the monthly meeting Charles W. van Devander delivers a paper entitled ''Navigation in Interplanetary Space'' to the members of the American Interplanetary Society .

Charles P. Mason delivers a paper entitled ''Can Man Exist in Outer Space?'' to the members of the American Interplanetary Society .

Paul Heylandt announces that he will soon have a rocket plane capable of reaching America from Europe. His solid rockets would take eight hours. Heylandt planned to use the rockets currently being tested by Max Valier in his rocket car. ''Globe and Mail''

H. Julian Allen of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Ames Laboratory conceived the "blunt nose principle" which submitted that a blunt shape would absorb only one-half of 1 percent of the heat generated by the reentry of a body into the earth's atmosphere. This principle was later significant to ICBM nose cone and the Mercury capsule development.

Six U.S. Navy enlisted men began an 8-day experiment in a simulated space cabin at the Air Crew Equipment Laboratory of the Naval Air Material Center at the Philadelphia Naval Base. NASA authorized $150,000 for Army Ordnance Missile Command studies of a lunar exploration program based on Saturn-boosted systems. To be included were circumlunar vehicles, unmanned and manned; close Lunar Orbiter ...

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