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Standard system of designating guided missiles and assigning popular names was adopted by the Army and Navy. Basic designation adopted was two letter combination of the three letters A (Air), S (Surface), U (Underwater), the first letter indicating origin of missile, the second letter its objective to be followed by the letter "M" for missile. Thus a surface-to-air missile was designated "SAM."

A House subcommittee heard that guided missiles, which accounted for 20.3 percent of the AF's fiscal year 1957 budget might climb to 35 percent by 1959.

Aerobee-Hi No. 41 fired at White Sands reached speed of 4,900 mph and an altitude of 193 miles. Naval Aviation Medical Center at Pensacola was commissioned, combining the clinical, training, and research functions of the Naval School of Aviation Medicine and the Pensacola Naval Hospital.

“Can We Get to Mars” with cover by Chesley Bonestell article in Collier’s Magazine

The New York World's Fair opens. Included is an exhibit in the "Time and Space" building which purports to show the view from a spacecraft. Ports of call include Venus, the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Saturn, the Milky Way, Horse Head nebula, and the Andromeda galaxy. Travellers voyage nine trillion trillion miles at 33 trillion trillion miles per hour for a fare of 25 cents. Aviation chronometers and ...

''RELEASE: 12-139 NASA'S CHANDRA SEES REMARKABLE OUTBURST FROM OLD BLACK HOLE'' WASHINGTON -- An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, provides new insight into the nature of a mysterious class of black holes ...

''RELEASE 18-029'' '''Twin Spacecraft to Weigh in on Earth's Changing Water''' A pair of new spacecraft that will observe our planet’s ever-changing water cycle, ice sheets, and crust is in final preparations for a California launch no earlier than Saturday, May 19. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, a partnership between NASA and the German Research ...

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... , 4/5/73, L3)'' The Federal Aviation Administration released Aviation Forecasts, Fiscal Years 1973-1984. Airline passenger traffic was expected to increase 10% annually, passing the 500 million mark ... 20 Apr 21 1973 21 Apr 22 1973 22 Apr 23 1973 23 Apr 24 1973 24 Apr 25 1973 25 Apr 26 1973 26 Apr 27 1973 27 Apr 28 1973 28 Apr 29 1973 29 Apr 30 1973 30 ...

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