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Loening M-3 first flown, equipped with Lawrence three-cylinder, air-cooled engine.

Stout ST-1 successfully test flown by Eddie Stinson, first all-metal airplane designed for the Navy.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley's PARD launched its first rocket-propelled model of a complete airplane for performance evaluation (AF XF-91), at Wallops Island. This was followed by flight tests of models of practically all Air Force and Navy supersonic airplanes.

First successful launching and erection in space of a 12-foot inflatable sphere for air density measurements, using a Nike-Cajun booster system, by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley's PARD at Wallops Island, Va. The Air Force Ballistic Missile Division published the first development plan for an Air Force manned military space systems program. The objective was to ...

German rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth is granted Media:549222.pdf German rocket patent 549222 .

The Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society continues under the editorship of Edward John Carnell with an article about the rocket explosion the previous month in Manchester.

Stephen H. Smith of Calcutta India launches a six foot wide rocket aeroplane at Garia in India. The vehicle was reported to fly well before the engine burned through the control surfaces and it crashed.

''RELEASE: 12-126 WARM OCEAN CURRENTS CAUSE MAJORITY OF ICE LOSS FROM ANTARCTICA'' WASHINGTON -- Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) revealed. An international team of scientists used a combination of satellite ...

''RELEASE: 13-120 - NASA PROBE OBSERVES METEORS COLLIDING WITH SATURN'S RINGS'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only location besides Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where scientists and amateur astronomers have been able ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-045'' '''NASA Puts Dallas Students on Phone with Orbiting Astronauts''' Students in Dallas will have the opportunity to speak with two astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station at 11:15 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 26. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. The event will be hosted by the School ...

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