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Media:1959-09-NASACongress.pdf NASA Report to Congress September 30 1959 Committee on Science and Astronautics, “Report on the Activities of the Committee on Science and Astronautics” Committee Print published.

Jules Verne's ''From The Earth to the Moon'' begins serialisation in ''Journal des Débats''

During forest fire season, 47 Air Service aircraft discovered 832 forest fires in 396 patrols from Pacific coast bases, flying 148,113 miles over national parks. Pointing out the virtual U.S. monopoly of known sources of helium, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA passed a special resolution addressed to the President and the Secretaries of War and Navy urging the ...

Opel Sander Rak. 1 , a glider powered with 10 rockets of 50 pounds of thrust each, made successful flight of 75 seconds, covering almost 2 miles near Frankfort-am-Main, Germany, Fritz von Opel was pilot. Max Valier operates a reaction powered car running on carbonic acid.

Russian stratosphere flight in Army balloon USSR attained a reported altitude of 60,095 feet, G. Prokofiev, K. Godunov, and E. Birnbaum as balloonists.

Agreement signed at Munich, Germany, between Germany, Britain, France, and Italy, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, an event in which the relative air strength of the major nations was a prominent factor.

13 engineers, instrument technicians, and technical observers were ordered TDY from Langley Laboratory to the Air Force test facility at Muroc, Calif., to assist in the Bell X-1 X-1 flight research program. Named as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA . Muroc Flight Test Unit, this group under Walter Williams was the origin of the NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards, ...

Research and Development Board (RDB) of DOD superseded Joint Research and Development Board, with Vannevar Bush named as Chairman.

Third Bumper-Wac launch from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG , the V-2 missile V-2 reaching 93.4 miles, the Wac Corporal not firing.

First International Congress on Astronautics held in Paris proposed creation of a permanent federation of astronautical societies.

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