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Media:1948-07-16 I28V07.pdf Langley Air Scoop Jul 16 1948

Berliner helicopter rose 12 feet and hovered before military observers at College Park, Md.

Full-scale wind-tunnel tests of A-1 "power-driven controllable bomb" conducted at Langley Field.

First test atomic device exploded in New Mexico.

Chance Vought F8U-1 Crusader set Los Angeles to New York speed record with an average speed of 760 mph, Maj. John H. Glenn , Jr. ( USMC), as pilot.

NASA, with Army as executive agent of a joint ABMA-JPL project, attempted Explorer satellite launch with Juno II booster, but it was destroyed 5½ seconds after launch by range safety officer. Second largest reflector telescope in the world, the 120-inch telescope at the Lick Observatory; was dedicated.

Landsat 4 is launched

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