Author: Space Medicine Association

January 25: Just thirteen months after initiating the contract, the first Thor missile was tested at Cape Canaveral. Jus …

January 10: Static test firing of the first American liquid rocket engine having a thrust over 400,000 pounds (Rocketdyn …

January 20: The Air Force was invited to join Project Orbiter and to supply help including tracking. January 22: The Depa …

February 8: The Rand Corporation recommended that the ICBM efforts be increased and that the requirements of Atlas be ea …

February 8: A B-29 was flown from Boston to within 10 miles of the Los Angeles International Airport without reference t …

March 19: The second official meeting of the Space Medicine Branch in Washington DC at the annual Aeromedical Associatio …

January 16: The decision was made to resume studies of the MX-774, redesignated as Atlas, and it was reactivated as a pro …

  March 2: The fist full-thrust test of the 75,000-pound thrust liquid (EtOH/LOX) rocket engine (XLR-43-NA-1) in the Nava …

February 9: The Department of Space Medicine was established at the School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Tex., b …

December 7: Pearl Harbor is attacked, bringing the US into World War II. June 13: The first launching attempt was made wi …