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Media:1949-03-16_V4I11LARC1945.pdf Langley Air Scoop March 16 1945

First operational Boeing B-17 delivered to the GHQ Air Force at Langley Field, Va.

U.S. Public Health Service initiated aerial survey of the Mississippi Valley watershed.

Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Mass., which traveled 184 feet in 21/2 seconds. This event was the "Kitty Hawk" of rocketry.

Robert H. Goddard 's classic report on "Liquid Propellant Rocket Development," reviewing his liquid-fuel rocket research and flight testing since 1919, was published by the Smithsonian Institution.

First civilian casualties in Britain due to air raids, during Luftwaffe attack on Scapa Flow.

First experimental track-type landing gear delivered to USAF received by 314th Troop Carrier Wing from Fairchild Aviation Corp. for installation on C-82 aircraft.

''RELEASE: 11-077 EXPEDITION 26 CREW AND CAPSULE LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN'' WASHINGTON -- Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Wednesday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station . Kaleri, the Soyuz commander, was at the ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-045 LAUNCH OF NASA'S NUSTAR MISSION POSTPONED'' WASHINGTON -- The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting. The launch will be rescheduled to allow additional time to confirm the flight software used by the launch vehicle's flight computer will issue commands to the rocket as ...

29 members of the newly incorporated British Interplanetary Society attend lectures in London by G. Brosan, "Stability of Rocket Flight" and Max Wholey, "A Survey of Lunar Surface Conditions."

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