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Trevor Gardner became the first Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA proposed a national aviation policy establishing a Bureau of Aeronautics in the Commerce Department, authorizing airplane competition to stimulate new designs, increasing Army and Navy air appropriations, expanding the Air Mail Service, and expanding research at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.

GHQ Air Force established by the Army Air Corps.

First operational Boeing B-17 delivered to the GHQ Air Force at Langley Field, Va.

United States exploded its first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands, and its second on March 20.

"Poor man's rocket," Scout , was jointly announced by NASA and AF. The concept of Scout originated at Langley Research Center in 1958, based upon extensive experience with staged solid-propellant rockets.

Nikolai Ivanovitch Tikhomirov establishes a lab to study rockets in Moscow. His lab will become the Gas Dynamics Laboratory GDL . It is located at 3 Tikhinskaya Ulitsa in Moscow and consists of a chemical laboratory and seventeen machine tools. Russian civil war ends.

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-041 NASA'S GLORY SATELLITE SCHEDULED FOR LAUNCH ON MARCH 4'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment for the Taurus XL launch vehicle led to the scrub of the original Feb. 23 launch attempt. Those issues have been resolved. The March 4 liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base , Calif ...

The BIS members meet in London and decide that the immediate goals of the Technical Committee with be an Altimeter, a Speedometer and a Coeleostat. Meetings of the committee were to take place on the 4th Tuesday of each month.

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-041 - SPACEX AND NASA HOST TELECONFERENCE TODAY ON SPACEX 2 MISSION TO SPACE STATION'' --WASHINGTON -- SpaceX and NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EST today to discuss the latest information about the company's second cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract.

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