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... Two Spacewalks, Preview Briefing''' Astronauts on the International Space Station will conduct spacewalks Friday, Oct. 19, and Thursday, Oct. 25, to continue power system upgrades, and experts will preview the work during ... . Media interested in participating by phone must contact the newsroom by 1:45 p.m. Oct. 16. Participants in the briefing will be: Kenneth Todd, International Space Station Operations integration manager ...

... MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-199 NASA HOSTS OCT. 11 TELECONFERENCE ABOUT MARS CURIOSITY ROVER PROGRESS'' PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Oct. 11, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale ...

Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA appointed to consider the needs of the committee as to a site for experimental work, with authority to visit and inspect sites, and to secure the cooperation of the War and Navy Departments and the Weather Bureau.

Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian, elected Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA ; Joseph S. Ames was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee, a post he held until October 7, 1939.

General Electric engineers obtained first carefully instrumented heat-transfer data from supersonic flight when V-2 missile V-2 fired from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG attained 8,400 mph.

$500 million was added to the current year's budget for the guided-missile program. (In fiscal year 1950 through 1954, $700 million was spent.) Arthur C. Clarke and Ralph A. Smith begin three part series in '''Everybody's Magazine''' entitled "Conquest of the Moon". Patrick Moore delivers talk ''The Planet Mars'' to the BIS in Birmingham England.

President Eisenhower in a White House press release congratulated the Soviet scientists on SPUTNIK I . He gave a brief history of the development of the U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY satellite program and pointed to the separation of Project Vanguard from work on ballistic missiles. Moscow announces the Sputnik nosecone was also in orbit.

Robert Esnault-Pelterie , French aviation and space pioneer, loses four fingers in explosion of liquid tetranitromethane propellant. Laurence E. Manning delivers lecture to the American Interplanetary Society about getting rockets off the earth and into interplanetary space.

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