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Maj. J. G. Kearby reached an effective, simulated altitude of 60,200 feet in Aeromedical Laboratory altitude chamber at Wright Field, as a part of an investigation of "full pressure" suits.

National Academy of Sciences' International Geophysical year IGY Committee established Technical Panel for the Earth Satellite Program, with Richard W. Porter as Chairman, to plan the scientific aspects of the program, including the selection of experiments, the establishment of optical tracking stations, and the handling of international and interdisciplinary relations.

Full-scale test version of the Snark guided missile (XSM62) successfully recovered for the first time after a flight from Cape Canaveral .

Executive Board of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) proposed a plan to establish a Committee on Space Research, which became known as COSPAR .

AFMTO Commander Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, appointed Department of Defense representative for Project Mercury support operations.

Future rocket pioneer Willy Ley is born in Berlin Germany.

''RELEASE: 11-329 NASA LEADS STUDY OF UNPRECEDENTED ARCTIC OZONE LOSS'' WASHINGTON -- A NASA-led study has documented an unprecedented depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. The study, published online Sunday in the journal Nature, finds the amount of ozone ...

''RELEASE 18-082'' '''NASA, NOAA Convene GOES 17 Mishap Investigation Board''' NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have appointed a board to investigate an instrument anomaly aboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 17 weather satellite currently in orbit. During postlaunch testing of the satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) ...

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