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First successful U.S. chemical gas, generator-driven, turbo-pump fed, regeneratively cooled rocket engine (XCALT-6000), delivered to AAF by Aerojet-General Corp. Components for approximately 100 V-2 missile V-2 ballistic missiles were shipped from Germany to White Sands Proving Ground . Joint Army-Navy Aeronautical Board established Research Committee to investigate and report on ...

Northrop F-89 Scorpion, an all-weather jet fighter with electronic intercept and fire control begun in 1946, first flew.

Wernher von Braun named an Honorary Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society . Around this time Heinz Gartmann travels to Paris to discuss with French astronautics experts the possibility of forming an international astronautics organisation. This would ultimately lead to the formation of the International Astronautical Federation .

X-1D airplane destroyed by explosion.

Estimated operational capability date for Atlas missile Atlas changed from March 1959 to June 1959. Media:MAR-1957-08.pdf Missiles & Rockets Aug 1957

In 3-week period, 19 five-stage Argo E5 sounding rockets were launched in USAF- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA program to measure radiation caused by Project Argus , rockets reaching 500-mile altitude and were launched from Wallops Island, AMR, and Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico. Experimental "weightlessness" flights in C-131B aircraft begun at Wright Air Development Center ...

Hugo Gernsback publishes "Scientific fiction" issue of his magazine Science and Invention . Image:SI 1923-08.jpg 300px

Article "Harnessing Giant Rockets" by G. Edward Pendray appears in Popular Science magazine. "Exploring the Moon by Rocket Ship" by Robert Esnault-Pelterie appears in Modern Mechanics magazine. Issue 11 of the Bulletin of the American Interplanetary Society is published, it includes an announcement about a book by David Lasser about to be published called The Conquest of ...

''The Son of Redmask'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine.

''The Return of the Murians'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine. Part 2 of ''Beyond the Stratosphere'' a science fiction story by William Lemkin , co-founder of the American Interplanetary Society , is published in Hugo Gernsback 's Amazing Stories magazine. Maurice K. Hanson ...

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