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... space. ''" National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , Resolution on the Subject of Space Flight, Adopted January 16, 1958."''

President Coolidge canceled all preparations for Navy Arctic expedition In which it was intended to use airplanes and the dirigible Shenandoah.

Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics formally established.

Spanish rebel planes began daily bombing of Barcelona from Majorca.

Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, Chief of Army General Headquarters Air Force, in an address to the annual convention of the National Aeronautic Association at St. Louis, said that the United States was a fifth- or sixth-rate air power.

Air Force established Project MX-1593 ( Project Atlas ), study phase for an intercontinental missile. Contract given Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft on January 23. This was the follow-on to Project MX-774 terminated in 1947.

Clyde J. Fitch delivers a paper entitled "The Construction of the Rocket Vehicle" to the membership of the American Interplanetary Society . Robert Esnault-Pelterie announces his trip to America to discuss a ten-year plan to fly to the moon. ''New York Times''

Time magazine runs story ''Utter Bilge'' about Astronomer Royal Richard van der Riet Woolley's claim that space travel would never be possible. Leonard J. Carter of the British Interplanetary Society rebutted by stating "We believe the first flight to the moon will take place within the next 20 years and that Professor Woolley will live to see it..."

''RELEASE: 13-024 - NASA TO TEST BIGELOW EXPANDABLE MODULE ON SPACE STATION'' LAS VEGAS -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology. NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to provide a Bigelow Expandable Activity ...

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