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Contract with Convair for MX-774 "Upper Air Test Vehicle," predecessor of the Atlas ICBM, was cancelled by the AAF.

Lacrosse guided-missile project, begun in 1947 by Naval Ordnance, transferred to the Department of the Army by the JCS.

Navy Air Turbine Test Station commissioned at Trenton, N.J., to test and to evaluate turbojet, turboprop, ramjet, and pulse-jet engines, accessories, and components.

USAF Western Development Division (became Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in 1957) established at Inglewood, Calif., under Brig Gen. Bernard A. Schriever , with authority to direct the ballistic missile development program authorized by June 1954 directives.

USAF research program on weightlessness in flight reactivated at SAM under direction of Dr. S. J. Gerathewohl, which conducted flight experiments until the spring of 1958. Media:19660081611_1966081611.pdf Electrical Propulsion System For Space Ships with Nuclear Power Source published by Ernst Stuhlinger

Aerobee upper air research rocket developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins, and first fired on September 25, 1947, completed 165 successful firings to date. International Geophysical Year began. The scientists of 67 nations were to participate in a cooperative, worldwide scientific program which would last for 18 months and would be coordinated internationally by ...

Japanese Kappa-6tw two-stage rocket flown to 30-mile altitude over Michikawa Rocket Center , Japan.

The first experimental reactor ( Kiwi-A reactor Kiwi-A ) in the nuclear space rocket program operated successfully at full temperature and duration at Jackass Flats, Nev.

''RELEASE: 10-186'' ''NASA, INTERNET ARCHIVE AND FLICKR LAUNCH HISTORIC IMAGE COLLECTION'' WASHINGTON -- Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons. Visitors to NASA on The Commons can help tell the photos' story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify ...

Arthur C. Clarke is interviewed by the Royal Air Force and is told he isn't wanted and so he applied to the Army.

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