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... at NASA's Langley Research Center 's Hydro Impact Basin in Hampton, Va., on Thursday, Oct. 27. Due to the nature of the testing; an exact drop time cannot be given ... at 601 Light Street in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The model is on display through Oct. 26 as part of the recent Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) annual conference that ... increasingly diverse audiences. A press conference will culminate the 13-day public display on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 9:45 a.m. EDT, at the Maryland Science Center. Participants will include ...

... level in two decades. Total ozone, measured in Dobson units (DU), reached 124 DU on Oct. 1. NOAA ground-based measurements at the South Pole recorded 136 DU on Oct. 5. When the ozone hole is not present, total ozone typically ranges from 240-500 ... launch and docking of the next Russian cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Wednesday, Oct. 31. The ISS Progress 49 resupply ship, loaded with 2.5 tons of food, fuel ...

... CONTRACT RELEASE C17-037'' '''NASA Awards Multiple Construction Contracts''' NASA has awarded 24 Multiple Award Construction Contract Two (MACC-II) contracts to 20 small businesses and four large ...

Media:83-10-14.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

When all foreign entrants withdrew from Schneider Cup Race to be held at Bayshore Park, Md., the United States agreed to cancel race rather than win by a flyaway. Instead, Navy scheduled contestants and other naval aircraft placed 17 world records in the book for class C seaplanes.

First transpacific passenger service completed by Pan American Airways, with Martin four-engined China Clipper in a round trip to Manila.

V-2 missile V-2 rocket No. 13 launched from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG carried camera which took motion pictures of the earth at approximately 65 miles altitude (pictures covered 40,000 square miles).

Kaufman T. Keller, president of the Chrysler Corp., appointed to the newly created position of Director of Guided Missiles for the U.S. Armed Forces.

Thor long-range flight test successful from AMR, impacting 2,645 miles downrange.

A.P. Modestov writes to Izvestia in Moscow to remind the editors that Konstantin Tsiolkovsky deserves precedence above Goddard and Oberth. He also cites "Science Review" issue 5 from 1903 as an example of Tsiolkovsky's early publication. Image:tsiolkovsky 1903 science review 5.jpg 100px

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