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In a message to Congress on the organization of the Nation's Defense Establishment, President Eisenhower recommended creation of the position of Director of Defense Research and Engineering, which would have a higher rank and replace the present Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

First annual meeting of the American Interplanetary Society at which David Lasser is re-elected president and G. Edward Pendray vice-president. Nathaniel Schachner was re-elected secretary and Laurence E. Manning treasurer. William Lemkin was elected librarian. At this meeting David Lasser gives a lengthy speech in which he reveals that he has been in discussion with ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-059 NASA ANNOUNCES EVENTS FOR SHUTTLE DISCOVERY DEPARTURE'' CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Events and operating hours for the Press Site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for space shuttle Discovery's departure. A NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified 747 jet, will transport Discovery to Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Va., on Tuesday ...

''RELEASE: 13-092 - NASA INVESTS IN SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROPOSALS TO ENABLE FUTURE MISSIONS'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 295 research and technology proposals from 216 American small businesses for negotiations that may lead to contract awards worth a combined $38.7 million. The proposals are part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) ...

Twenty eight year-old Nikolai Ivanovitch Kibal’chich is hanged for his role in the assassination of Czar Alexander II. Kibal'chich spent his last few days in prison writing down his ideas for a reaction-propelled aircraft.

Virgil I. Grissom , future Mercury Seven astronaut is born.

''RELEASE 18-020'' '''NASA Awards Contract to Build Quieter Supersonic Aircraft''' NASA has taken another step toward re-introducing supersonic flight with the award Tuesday of a contract for the design, building and testing of a supersonic aircraft that reduces a sonic boom to a gentle thump. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company of Palmdale, California, was selected for the Low-Boom Flight ...

The Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung is granted a license by the occupational authorities in Stuttgart Germany. The group was formed by Heinz Hermann Koelle . Publisher Jupp Gerhards is elected managing director, Koelle is science director and Hans Reissner, treasurer.

Heinz Gartmann steps down as managing director of the Stuttgart GfW after a complaint from Hans Kaiser of the Nordwestdeutsche Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung a rival group.

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