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... CAPE CANAVERAL --'' NASA managers have determined space shuttle Endeavour will not launch before Sunday, May 8, but will not officially set a new launch date until early this week. After ... and retest the new unit. That work will delay Endeavour's launch until at least May 8. The shuttle has three Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) that provide hydraulic power to steer ...

... -- Students from across the nation will gather at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston May 2-5 for the annual NASA Explorer Schools Symposium. These future leaders in science, technology ... . The site had 18 million visits during the two-week mission, during which it distributed 1.2 billion megabytes of data. Previously, that had equaled a year's worth of information ... more usable and understandable for the general public. Since then, there have been more than 1.5 billion visits to the site, and its customer-satisfaction ratings are among the highest ...

Vanguard Test Vehicle (TV-1), a modified Martin Viking launch vehicle Viking first-stage and Vanguard solid-propellant third-stage Grand Central Rocket as second-stage, launched with instrumented nose cone to an altitude of 121 miles and met all test objectives.

... 8,000-mile altitude. The radiation was described by Dr. James A. Van Allen as "1,000 times as intense as could be attributed to cosmic rays." Responsibility for the Project ...

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Lt. Frank Akers (USN) made hooded blind landing in an OJ-2 at College Park, Md., in demonstration of system intended for aircraft carrier use. In subsequent flights, he made takeoffs and landings between Anacostia and College Park under a hood without assistance. The Daily Express newspaper features a cover story about Gerhard Zucker 's mail rocket. The story reports that Zucker is bringing ...

G. Edward Pendray delivers paper to the American Interplanetary Society called "The German Rockets".

Arthur C. Clarke reads the British Post Office's official file on rocket mail (87265/46) and comments "Not much of interest. Proposal first made in 1832 "

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