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International pilgrimage made to Kitty Hawk, N.C., to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first airplane flight.

German Army Ordnance Office, after reviewing work of Goddard and others, decided to establish rocket program and to equip artillery proving ground at Kummersdorf to develop military missiles.

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden , National Bureau of Standards, delivered second Wright Brothers Lecture at Columbia University.

Rocket-Sonde Research Branch, under Dr. Ernest H. Krause, constituted in Naval Research Laboratory to conduct scientific exploration of the upper atmosphere. Milton Rosen is one of the team.

Space biological research program was initiated at Holloman AFB, N. Mex., by the National Institutes of Health. Velocity and altitude record for single-stage rocket (3,600 mph and 116 miles altitude) made by V-2 missile V-2 at WSPG.

USAF Boeing XB-47 Stratojet made first flight from Seattle to Moses Lake, first medium turbojet bomber and the first with engines (six) mounted on pylons.

Navy Special Projects Office authorized Lockheed to proceed with Polaris development, having withdrawn from the Jupiter missile Jupiter program earlier.

First successful test firing of USAF Atlas missile Atlas ICBM, the missile landing in the target area after a flight of some 500 miles, on the 54th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.

NASA awarded contract to Rocketdyne of North American to build single-chamber 1.5-million-pound-thrust rocket engine. The H-1 engine successfully completed its first full-power firing at North American Aviation NAA 's Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park, Calif. Entire USAF Atlas missile Atlas boosted into orbit communications relay satellite, PROJECT SCORE or the "talking ...

Launching of NASA-AFBMD Thor-Able space probe designed to boost 90-pound payload to explore space between Earth and Venus was postponed.

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