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... innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use on future NASA missions. During the next 18 months, the directorate will make significant new investments to address several high-priority challenges for ...

First catapult launching from carrier U.S.S. Langley (CV-1) by Comdr. Kenneth Whiting flying a PT seaplane.

Navy issued contract to Northrop for the XBT-1, a two-seat scout and 1,000-pound bomb dive bomber, initial prototype of sequence that led to the SBD Dauntless series of dive bombers introduced to the fleet in 1938 and used throughout World War II.

Inertial guidance system for Navaho X-10 missile tested in first flight at Downey, Calif.

Air Force took action to insure earliest possible initial operational capability with ICBM and IRBM. First powered flight of Bell X-2 (No. 1) by Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest (USAF), powered by first throttlable rocket engine, the Curtiss Wright XLR25-CW-1, and Mach 0.99 was reached.

Nike-Asp sounding rocket fired from NASA Wallops Station emitted sodium vapor at 50-mile altitude to 150 miles, revealing powerful windshear effects. NASA-DOD memorandum of understanding signed providing for interim management of Project Saturn pending its formal transfer to NASA.

The official founding of the Soviet rocket organisation Moscow Group for the Study of Reaction Motors MOSGIRD . F.A. Tsander signs a contract with the Central Council of the Osoaviakhim to design and build a rocket engine for a glider.

G. Edward Pendray delivers lecture to the members of the American Interplanetary Society on the progress of the experimental committee's work on their first rocket. The rocket was built by Pendray, David Lasser , Alfred Africano , Nathaniel Schachner , William Lemkin , Alfred Best, Lee Gregory (Pendray), and Hugh Franklin Pierce .

“The USSR Celebrates – Sputnik II in Air – Vast Display in Moscow”, cover picture of Wernher von Braun with Moon Rocket Model in Life Magazine

''RELEASE 17-086'' '''NASA Launches NOAA Weather Satellite Aboard United Launch Alliance Rocket to Improve Forecasts''' NASA has successfully launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the first in a series of four highly advanced polar-orbiting satellites, equipped with next-generation technology and designed to improve the accuracy of U.S. weather forecasts out to ...

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