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A. L. Berger of Wright Field received the Thurman H. Bane Award for 1947 for work in developing new types of high-temperature ceramic coatings for use in aircraft engines.

First operational emergency use of T-1 partial pressure suit by Maj. F. K. Everest (USAF) in Bell X-1 X-1 aircraft at 69,000 feet; suit's automatic operation saved pilot and aircraft.

X-1A . exploded just prior to time of drop from "mother" B-29, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA pilot Joseph A. Walker was saved and X-1A was jettisoned.

Largest U.S. test stand for rocket motors was completed at Redstone Arsenal , slated for Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM.

T. Keith Glennan , President of Case Institute of Technology, and Hugh L. Dryden , Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , were nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be Administrator and Deputy Administrator of NASA. The Senate confirmed their nominations one week later. ''Rosholt, An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963, pp. 40-42. ''

''RELEASE: 12-273 FIRST 360-DEGREE PANORAMA FROM NASA'S CURIOSITY MARS ROVER'' PASADENA, Calif. -- Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars. The images from Curiosity's just-activated navigation cameras, or Navcams, include the rover's first self-portrait, looking ...

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... qualified for human-rated SRBs. The contract, valued at US$1.8 billion, continued work that had begun in April 2006 under a temporary agreement, extending the performance period through December 2014 ... 7 Aug 8 2007 8 Aug 9 2007 9 Aug 10 2007 10 Aug 11 2007 11 Aug 12 2007 12 Aug 13 2007 13 Aug 14 2007 14 Aug 15 2007 15 Aug 16 2007 16 Aug 17 2007 17 Aug 18 ...

... had detached from the spacecraft, the collection grid had parachuted to Earth on 15 January 2006. Since that time, scientists worldwide had been analyzing the samples to learn about comet formation ... 7 Aug 8 2009 8 Aug 9 2009 9 Aug 10 2009 10 Aug 11 2009 11 Aug 12 2009 12 Aug 13 2009 13 Aug 14 2009 14 Aug 15 2009 15 Aug 16 2009 16 Aug 17 2009 17 Aug 18 ...

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