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... Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, who have been on the station since Nov. 16. Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers will remain on the station until May as members of ... Thursday, Dec. 1. Fossum completed 167 days in space as a member of the Expedition 28 and 29 crews during his third space flight. Altogether, Fossum has spent 194 days in ... , returned to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at 8:26 p.m. on Nov. 21. The three were aboard the station during the final space shuttle mission, STS-135 ...

November 28-29: First flight over South Pole, by Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, in a Ford trimotor piloted by Bernt Balchen, from Little America.

... intense narrow zones of radiation were detected over a visible aurora during one orbit. November 28-29: Comdr. M. Ross and Dr. O. B. Moore flew ONR STRATO-LAB HIGH IV ...

First airplane raid on London, by a German seaplane.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Report 116, "Applications of Modern Hydrodynamics to Aeronautics," by Ludwig Prandtl of Gottingen University in Germany, a major contribution to the basis of the theory governing fundamental aerodynamical applications, was published. His famous 1904 paper on boundary layers was translated and issued in National Advisory Committee for ...

Norton Sound was assigned to Operational Development Force for use as an experimental rocket-firing ship, alterations initiated at Naval Shipyard at Philadelphia in March 1948, and completed October 1, 1948.

Ryan X-13 Vertijet completed the world's first jet vertical takeoff transition flight, Peter F. Giraud of Ryan as pilot.

USAF Atlas missile Atlas made its first successful operational test flight in a 6325 statute-mile flight, landed close to its target.

''RELEASE: 12-400 SPACE STARS: GENERATIONS -- LOCKHART, SHATNER, WHEATON VIDEOS CELEBRATE NASA SPINOFF BENEFITS TO LIFE ON EARTH'' WASHINGTON -- June Lockhart, William Shatner and Wil Wheaton are the latest entertainment icons featured in new public service announcements that highlight how some of NASA's outstanding accomplishments in space are used to improve our life on Earth. Spanning ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY M16-136'' '''NASA Television to Air International Space Station Cargo Ship Launch, Docking''' A Russian cargo spacecraft is set to launch Thursday, Dec. 1, to deliver more than two and a half tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station crew. Coverage on NASA Television and the agency’s website begins at 9:30 a.m. EST ahead of the 9:51 a.m. (8:51 p.m. ...

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