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... LAUNCH'' WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the largest and ... Washington. The MSL mission is scheduled to launch at 10:25 a.m. EST on Nov. 25. The launch period extends to Dec. 18. The spacecraft will deliver a car-size ...

Media:1946-11-08-LARCV4I45.pdf Langley Air Scoop Nov 08 1946

November 8-7: Robert H. Goddard fired several rocket devices before representatives of the Signal Corps, Air Service, Army Ordnance, and others at Aberdeen Proving Ground , Md.

... -2 missile V-2 and Redstone, the latter on experience gained from Atlas program. November 8-14: Department of Defense and the Air Force established special streamlined administrative program and approved ...

Air Service Medical Research Laboratory and School for Flight Surgeons was designated School of Aviation Medicine.

Secretary of the Navy approved Naval Ordnance Test Station to be located on west coast and to be under cognizance of BuOrd. In December, its site was selected at Inyokern, China Lake, Calif.

First jet airplane dogfight when USAF Lockheed F-80 piloted by Lt. J. R. Brown downed a Russian-built MiG-15 over Korea.

First successful launching of a research model propelled by the helium gun catapult, by Langley's PARD at Wallops Island.

Lt. Comdr. M. L. Lewis (USN) and Malcolm D. Ross established a world altitude record in a plastic STRATOLAB balloon by ascending to a height of 76,000 feet, taking off near Rapid City, S. Dak., and landing 175 miles away near Kennedy, Nebr., thus breaking the record of 72,394 feet set in 1935 by O. A. Anderson and A. W. Stevens.

Secretary of Defense McElroy directed the Department of the Army to launch a scientific satellite with the modified Jupiter-C test rocket. The satellite, carrying instruments selected by the National Academy of Sciences, would be a part of this country's contribution to the International Geophysical year IGY . William M. Holaday, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Guided Missiles, ...

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