Author: Space Medicine Association

At this time other Soviet design bureaus emerged as competitors to Korolev in the production of space launchers and spac …

January: NASA contracted with McDonnell for development and production of the Mercury spacecraft. January: Review of mili …

January 1: The Strategic Air Command was assigned responsibility for the United States operational ICBM capability. Janua …

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 …