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... life of U.S. Marine, NASA astronaut and Ohio senator John Glenn today and Saturday, Dec. 17. Visitors will pay their respects to Glenn from 4 to 7 p.m. EST ... the agency’s website. One of NASA's original seven Mercury astronauts, Glenn, who died Dec. 8, also served 24 years in the U.S. Marine Corps and four terms as ...

First successful test of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA high-speed motion-picture camera developed by C. D. Miller, conducted at Langley Laboratory, later used extensively in photographic analysis of combustion and operated up to rates of 40,000 photographs per second. Navy K-2 airship delivered to NAB Lakehurst for trials, the prototype for World War II K Class patrol ...

First flight of tailless Northrop X-4 X-4 (No. 1) research airplane completed, Northrop test pilot Charles Tucker as pilot. Two Northrop X-4 X-4 's were built by Northrop aid some 60 research flights were made by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA at Muroc with the Northrop X-4 X-4 (No. 2) after about a dozen Air Force flights. V. Gradecak speaks to the GfW in ...

Navy Kaman K-225, modified as the first gas-turbine, shaft-powered helicopter, successfully completed flight test.

USAF announced Atlas ICBM under construction by Convair .

Two Thor shots, one from Cape Canaveral and one from Vandenberg AFB , were successful. Intermediate range ballistic missile portion of PMR was inaugurated with successful tiring of USAF Thor from Vandenberg AFB . MATS C-133 Cargomaster lifted 117,900 pounds of cargo to 10,000 feet, a weight-lifting record, at Dover AFB, Del.

Transmitters of VANGUARD III , launched on September 18, became silent after providing tracking signals and scientific data for 85 days. Satellite was expected to remain in orbit 40 years.

Arthur Charles Clarke is born in Minehead Somerset England. Clarke would later become famous for having first suggested geosynchronous orbits for satellites. He also wrote science fiction, notably 2001: A Space Odyssey and was an early President of the British Interplanetary Society .

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