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Media:1948-07-23 I29V07.pdf Langley Air Scoop Jul 23 1948

Thor-Able reentry test vehicle made another successful 6,000-mile flight ; the nose cone and mouse passenger were not recovered. July 23-31: Feasibility of creating or destroying cloud formations by release of carbon black was established in tests conducted off Florida coast by the Navy Weather Service's Comdr. N. Brango and Dr. Florence Van Straten.

... world's longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first Landsat satellite was launched July 23, 1972, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The 40-year Landsat record provides global ...

Hermann Oberth and Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt VfR successfully tested liquid oxygen and gasoline-fueled rocket motor for 96.5 seconds In Germany. a demonstration made before the Director of the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt to secure financial support. The engine had between 7 and 7.7kg of thrust and consumed 1kg of fuel and 6.6kg of oxygen.

Navy awarded contract for XPB2Y-1 flying boat to Consolidated, which became the prototype for four engined flying boats used throughout World War II.

Life magazine published drawings of a manned space station as envisioned by the German rocket scientists of Peenemünde .

Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest (USAF) flew the Bell X-2 rocket-powered research plane at a record speed of just over 1,900 mph and to an altitude of 75,000 feet, at Edwards AFB , Calif. Mid-1956: USAF X-17 flight test program started at Cape Canaveral to study reentry problems by simulating reentry velocities and conditions with three-stage solid-fuel Lockheed X-17 . A total of ...

Advanced Research Projects Agency representatives visited Army Ordnance Missile Command to discuss studies of a Maneuverable Recoverable Space Vehicle (MRS. V). The general purpose was to identify U.S. space needs before 1970 which might require vehicles of this type. ''Senate Staff Report, Manned Space Flight Program, p. 171.''

''RELEASE: 10-294'' ''NASA POSTPONES LAUNCH OF SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY'' CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA postponed space shuttle Discovery's launch to the International Space Station due to a hydrogen gas leak detected while filling the external tank. The next launch attempt could be no earlier than Monday, Nov. 8 at 12:53 p.m. EST. The leak, detected early Friday morning while the shuttle's ...

British newspaper the Daily Mirror reports that Herr Professor von Hermann Oberth (sic) is building a huge howitzer to shoot at the moon. Apparently Oberth was to ride in a rubber-lined projectile on the journey.

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