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NASA formally organized Project Mercury to: (1) place a manned space capsule in orbital flight around the earth ; (2) investigate man's reactions to and capabilities in this environment; end (3) recover capsule and pilot safely. A NASA Space Task Group organized at Langley Research Center drew up specifications for the Mercury capsule, based on studies by the National Advisory Commlttee ...

“Man on the Frontier of Space” by Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke with images by Ralph Andrew Smith R.A. Smith of the British Interplanetary Society in Everybody’s Weekly Magazine

The Evening Telegraph newspaper in the UK runs headline, "Does He Want the Moon? Hitler's Scientists Plan Super Rocket". It goes on to say that "an inventor who recently thought he had found the secret of a rocket apparatus was given special accommodation at Berchtesgarden and told to get on with the job."

Moscow Radio announces that the carrier rocket for Sputnik was also in orbit.

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... that federal funding for research and development had risen significantly between fiscal yrs 1974 and 1978, having shown only slight growth in the 1969-1974 period. Total federal R&D funding ... 5 Oct 6 1977 6 Oct 7 1977 7 Oct 8 1977 8 Oct 9 1977 9 Oct 10 1977 10 Oct 11 1977 11 Oct 12 1977 12 Oct 13 1977 13 Oct 14 1977 14 Oct 15 1977 15 Oct 16 1977 16 Oct 17 ...

... . The latter three of four qualification flights scheduled from June 1979 to Oct. 1980 would launch Amsat (telecommunications for international radio amateurs), Firewheel (science /Germany), ... 1978 July August 1978 August Aug 1 1978 1 Aug 2 1978 2 Aug 3 1978 3 Aug 4 1978 4 Aug 5 1978 5 Aug 6 1978 6 Aug 7 1978 7 Aug 8 1978 8 Aug 9 1978 9 Aug 10 1978 ...

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... Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. The first satellite should be available Oct. 1, 1981; the second, Apr. 1, 1982; the third, Oct. l, 1987. A satellite that failed would have to be ... 1978 February March 1978 March Mar 1 1978 1 Mar 2 1978 2 Mar 3 1978 3 Mar 4 1978 4 Mar 5 1978 5 Mar 6 1978 6 Mar 7 1978 7 Mar 8 1978 8 Mar 9 1978 9 Mar 10 1978 10 Mar 11 1978 11 Mar 12 1978 12 Mar 13 1978 13 Mar 14 1978 14 Mar 15 1978 15 Mar 16 1978 16 ...

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