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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

''RELEASE: 12-235 NASA'S CAR-SIZED ROVER NEARS DARING LANDING ON MARS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work. However, getting the Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars will not be easy. "The Curiosity landing is the hardest NASA mission ever ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-016'' ''NASA AWARDS PROPULSION RESEARCH CONTRACTS TO FIVE FIRMS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded contracts to five companies to provide air-breathing engine technologies in support of aerospace propulsion research and technology development activities at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Each of the five indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts ...

'''STEREO-A Spacecraft Returns Data From the Far Side of the Sun''' image:20150715_062759_n7eua_171.jpg 800px This image of the sun was taken on July 15, 2015, with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft, which collects images in several wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye. This image shows the ...

H. Res. 635, introduced by Representative McCormack and referred to House Administration. Reported out August 6 (H. Rept. 2468). Passed the House August 6, 1958. Provided $85,000 additional for the expenses of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration.

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