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Friedrich Starner made first manned rocket-powered flight in a tailless glider from the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön Mountains of Germany. Takeoff was made by elastic launching rope assisted by 44-pound thrust rocket, another rocket was fired while airborne, and a flight of about 1 mile was achieved. This flight was a part of experimentation directed by Alexander Lippisch .

Navy D-558-II Douglas Skyrocket, flown by test pilot William Bridgeman, set a new unofficial airplane speed and altitude record at Edwards AFB , Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; speed estimated at more than 1,200 mph ; altitude estimated 70,000 feet.

Delivery and flight test of experimental all-magnesium F-80C aircraft, built to test weight and strength of magnesium alloys, at Wright-Patterson AFB , Ohio.

First test flight of prototype WS-107A Atlas missile Atlas was detonated by command signal at 5,000 feet following a failure in the booster fuel system.

John Schesta , G. Edward Pendray and Lawrence Manning of the American Rocket Society have problems launching ARS Rocket 4 at Great Kills Staten Island. ''New York Times''

''RELEASE: 10-050'' ''NASA GROUND-BREAKING UNEARTHS NEW GENERATION OF DEEP SPACE NETWORK ANTENNAS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications. Following the recommendations of an independent study, NASA embarked on an ambitious project to replace its aging fleet of 70- ...

''RELEASE: 13-180 - MARKS ON MARTIAN DUNES MAY REVEAL TRACKS OF DRY ICE SLEDS'' --PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go. Researchers deduced this process could explain one enigmatic class of gullies seen on Martian sand dunes by ...

S. Rept. 1701, Special Committee on Space and Astronautics, “National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958,” published to accompany S. 3609 (later H.R. 12575).

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