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... nine career spacewalks, and ranks third overall among American astronauts. Arnold has 32 hours and 4 minutes during five career spacewalks. Artemyev conducted one spacewalk, with fellow cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, to ... depart. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin are scheduled to launch Thursday, Oct. 11 for a same-day arrival, adding to the crew of Expedition 57.

Media:1946-10-04-LARCV4I40.pdf Langley Air Scoop Oct 04 1946

... the ocean. Arctic sea ice extent on Sept. 9, the lowest point this year, was 4.33 million square kilometers (1.67 million square miles). Averaged over the month of September, ice extent was 4.61 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles). This places 2011 as the second ...

October 4-5: First Aeronautical Safety Conference held in New York under auspices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics.

The Space Age begins with SPUTNIK I , the first man-made earth satellite, launched by U.S.S.R.. It remained in orbit until January 4, 1958. It was built by Sergei Pavlovitch Korolev 's design bureau and the booster was powered by the RD-107 and RD-108 rocket engines, both built by Valentin P. Glushko 's design bureau. The National Rocket Club was organized in Washington, D.C.

Navy NC-1 flying boat, designed by Hunsaker, Richardson & Westervelt, was successfully test flown.

Mikhail K. Tikhonravov in New York Times said U.S.S.R. science made feasible space flight and creation of artificial earth satellite ; reported U.S.S.R. rocket advance equaled or exceeded West. Image:Mikhail_Klevdievich_Tikhonravov.jpg '''Mikhail Tikhonravov'''

At meeting in Rome, launching of scientific earth satellites recommended by the Special Committee for the International Geophysical year IGY (known as CSAGI).

Vandenberg AFB , first operational ICBM base in free world, was dedicated. Jet transatlantic passenger service inaugurated by British Overseas Airways.

NASA LITTLE JOE launch vehicle carrying a boilerplate Mercury capsule with a dummy escape system successfully launched from Wallops Station, Va. LUNIK III , Russia's translunar earth satellite began its photographing trip around the moon, while Premier Khrushchev was visiting Peiping. The Soviet Union launched Lunik III toward the moon on the second anniversary of Sputnik I . The ...

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