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U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced that United States would propose a plan for international cooperation in the exploration of outer space to the United Nations.

President Eisenhower appointed Detlev W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences; William A. AL Burden; James H. Doolittle; and Alan T. Waterman, Director of the NSF, to the National Aeronautics and Space Council. Additionally, the Space Council including the Administrator of NASA, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Chairman of the AEC as statutory members.

The third of the Project Argus Argus small A-bomb detonations beyond the atmosphere was conducted over the South Atlantic. Instruments of EXPLORER IV satellite recorded and reported to ground stations resultant electron densities, subsequently reported by James A. Van Allen .

Black Knight missile of the United Kingdom was launched from the Australian range at Woomera to an altitude of over 300 miles.

Joint NASA- Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA Manned Satellite Panel established to make final recommendation for manned space flight program.

Vanguard (SLV-3) reached 265 miles' altitude and was destroyed 9,200 miles downrange over Central Africa on reentry into the atmosphere. Boeing B-52D set a world distance in a closed-circuit record of 6,233.981 miles, with Lt. CoL V. L. Sandacz at the controls.

Nike-Asp test flight from Navy LSD ''Point Defiance'' near Puka Island reached 800,000 feet, the highest altitude ever reached by ship-launched rocket, in preliminary test of Nike-Asp for use in International Geophysical year IGY solar eclipse studies.

A letter contract was signed by NASA with North American Aviation NAA 's Rocketdyne Division for the development of the H-1 rocket engine, designed for use in a clustered-engine booster. '' Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Saturn Systems Office and Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC Historical Office, Saturn Illustrated Chronology (George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , ...

James A. Chamberlin Chief of Design at A.V. Roe Canada and one of the principle designers of the Avro Arrow and later the Gemini spacecraft, becomes an associate fellow of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute .

Flywheel catapult used successfully to launch Navy "flying bomb" at Copiague, Long Island, a development undertaken by Sperry Co.

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