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Media:Airscoop1943V2I20.pdf NACA LMAL Bulletin Issue 20 Vol 2 Sep 4 1943

Media:1948-09-03 I35V07.pdf Langley Air Scoop Sep 4 1948

... inform our understanding of what drives these changes. NASA will host a prelaunch briefing at 4 p.m. Sept. 13 with: Tom Wagner, ICESat-2 program scientist at NASA Headquarters Doug ...

First transcontinental flight within a single day, by Lt. J. H. Doolittle (USAS) in a modified DH-4B Liberty 400, from Pablo Beach, Fla., to Rockwell Field, San Diego, a distance of 2,163 miles in 21 hours 20 minutes.

Navy airship Shenandoah (ZR-1) made its first flight at NAS Lakehurst, the first of the Zeppelin type to use helium gas.

Maj. James H. .Doolittle established a new transcontinental record from Burbank to Newark of 11 hours and 16 minutes elapsed time including three stops, flying Laird Super-Solution.

President Eisenhower appointed Detlev W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; William A. AL Burden; James H. Doolittle; and Alan T. Waterman, Director of the NSF, to the National Aeronautics and Space Council. Additionally, the Space Council including the Administrator of NASA, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Chairman of the AEC as statutory members.

ONR SKYHOOK unmanned balloon launched from Sioux Falls, S. Dak., by Raven Industries, establishing new unofficial altitude record of 148,000 feet for unmanned balloon.

''RELEASE: 12-302 NASA ANNOUNCES ASTEROID NAMING CONTEST FOR STUDENTS'' WASHINGTON -- Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return samples to Earth. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). Samples returned from the ...

''RELEASE 17-076'' '''President Trump Welcomes Home Record-breaking NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson''' NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer received a special welcome as they were flying home to Houston Sunday evening. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Whitson and Fischer on a NASA plane following Whitson’s record-breaking mission to the International Space Station. Whitson, ...

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