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... of Michigan, Stanford University, and the California Institute of Technology in this time period. June 4-5: Clarence D. Chamberlain and Charles A. Levine flew nonstop from New York to Eisleben ...

At an Space Task Group STG staff meeting, Director Robert R. Gilruth suggested that study should be made of a post- Mercury spacecraft Mercury program in which maneuverable Mercury spacecraft would make land landings in limited areas. ''Memorandum, Paul E. Purser to Gilruth, "Log for the Week of June 1, 1959," p. 4.''

... studying a system known as CID-42, located in the middle of a galaxy about 4 billion light years away. They had previously spotted two distinct, compact sources of optical light ... Communicators (NAGC) 2012 Communications School near Washington on June 7. Foreman's presentation begins at 4:30 p.m. EDT at the Sheraton National Hotel located at 900 S. Orme St ...

Aircraft Production Board and the Joint Technical Board on Aircraft authorized the construction of five prototype models of 8- and 12-cylinder Liberty motors. Engine designs had been worked out in a Washington hotel room by J. G. Vincent of Packard Motor Car Co. and E. J. Hall of the Hall-Scott Motor Car Co. during the previous week, applying current engineering practices to mass production ...

Army Air Service (AAS) was created In the Army reorganization bill signed by President Wilson. AAS consisted of 1,516 officers and 16,000 enlisted men.

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.

Dornier DO-X, 12-engined German flying boat (which carried 169 passengers on its trial flight), arrived in New York after flying the south Atlantic. A rocket propelled glider is flown by William G. Swan at Atlantic City New Jersey. The glider weighed 200 pounds and was equipped with ten rockets. A second flight took place the next day with 12 rockets.

Maj. Arthur Murray, USAF, piloted the X-1A research airplane, launched from a B-29 to a record altitude of slightly over 90,000 feet, highest so far attained by man.

USAF Thor flight tested for the first time from a tactical-type launcher at Cape Canaveral .

''RELEASE: 10-202'' ''NASA AND ATK SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIVE-SEGMENT SOLID ROCKET MOTOR'' PROMONTORY, Utah -- With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. The motor is potentially transferable to future heavy-lift launch vehicle designs. The ...

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