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Chronology - 1953 - Quarter 4

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- 1953 October - Nation: Russia. Launch Vehicle: R-5.

R-5 Phase II Trials Launches begin
Through December 1953 there were 7 Phase II launches, one of which was unsuccessful. A maximum range of 1185 km was reached.

- 1953 Oct 7 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Holloman . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee. LV Configuration: RTV-A-1a.

Aerobee USAF-43 Agency: USAF Air Research and Development Command. Apogee: 100 km.
Solar radiation research. Launched at 1000 local time. Reached 99.8 km.

- 1953 Oct 14 - Nation: USSR.

Future cosmonaut Dr Olga Nikolayevna Klyushnikova born in USSR.

- 1953 Oct 14 - Nation: USA. Launch Vehicle: Navaho G-26.

X-10 B-64 Navaho first flight. Program: Navaho.
Prototype of North America's B-64 Navaho, a X-10 ramjet guided missile, made its initial flight. References: 17 .

- 1953 Oct 20 - Nation: USA.

Future astronaut Stanley Norbert Koszelak Jr born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

- 1953 Oct 20 -

Test Pilot Walter P. Jones dies at age of 29 -- Crash of the YF-89D prototype interceptor

- 1953 Oct 27 - Nation: USA.

Future astronaut Michael (Mike) Allen Baker born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

- 1953 Oct 30 - Nation: Russia.

Future cosmonaut Aleksandr Fyodorovich Polishchuk born in Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk, Russia.

- 1953 Nov 1 - Nation: USA.

Future astronaut Dr Nancy Jan Davis born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA.

- 1953 Nov 2 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Holloman . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee. LV Configuration: RTV-A-1a.

Aerobee USAF-44 Agency: USAF Air Research and Development Command. Apogee: 121 km.
Ionosphere research. Launched at 1132 local time. Reached 120.7 km.

- 1953 Nov 3 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Holloman . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee. LV Configuration: RTV-A-1a.

Aerobee USAF-45 Agency: USAF Air Research and Development Command. Apogee: 122 km.
Ionosphere research. Launched at 1115 local time. Reached 121.5 km.

- 1953 Nov 15 - Nation: Tajikistan.

Future cosmonaut Yuri Victorovich Prikhodko born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

- 1953 Nov 19 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: White Sands . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee. LV Configuration: RTV-N-10.

Aerobee NRL-14 Agency: US Navy, Naval Research Laboratory. Apogee: 113 km.
Solar spectrum research. Launched at 1540 local time. Reached 112.6 km.

- 1953 Nov 19 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Wallops Island . Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon.

First launch Nike-Deacon two-stage rocket.
First launching of a Nike-Deacon two-stage rocket for heat transfer studies at NACA Wallops Island. References: 17 .

- 1953 Nov 21 - Nation: USA.

X-1A Flight 7 Payload: X-1A flight 7. Class: Manned. Type: Rocketplane. Spacecraft: X-1A. Flight Crew: Yeager.
AF flight 1. Reached mach 1.15. Familiarization purposes. References: 49 , 97 .

- 1953 Nov 25 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: White Sands . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee. LV Configuration: RTV-N-10.

Aerobee NRL-15 Agency: US Navy, Naval Research Laboratory. Apogee: 95 km.
Solar spectrum research. Launched at 0846 local time. Reached 95.1 km.

- 1953 Nov 28 - Nation: USSR. Launch Vehicle: G-4.

Groettrup and last Germans return to Germany. References: 86 .

- 1953 Dec 1 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: White Sands . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee. LV Configuration: RTV-N-10.

Aerobee NRL-16 Agency: US Navy, Naval Research Laboratory. Apogee: 130 km.
Solar spectrum research. Launched at 0830 local time. Reached 129.6 km.

- 1953 Dec 2 - Nation: USA.

X-1A Flight 8 Payload: X-1A flight 8. Class: Manned. Type: Rocketplane. Spacecraft: X-1A. Flight Crew: Yeager.
AF flight 2. Mach 1.5. References: 49 , 97 .

- 1953 Dec 8 - Nation: USA.

X-1A Flight 9 Payload: X-1A flight 9. Class: Manned. Type: Rocketplane. Spacecraft: X-1A. Flight Crew: Yeager.
AF flight 3. First high-mach flight attempt by X-1A. Mach 1.9 attained at 18300 m during slight climb. References: 49 , 97 .

- 1953 Dec 12 - Nation: USA.

X-1A Flight 10 Payload: X-1A flight 10. Class: Manned. Type: Rocketplane. Spacecraft: X-1A. Flight Crew: Yeager.
AF flight 4. Plane attained mach 2.44, but met violent instability above mach 2.3. Tumbled 15250 m, wound up in subsonic inverted spin. Yeager recovered to upright spin, then normal flight at 7625 m. References: 49 , 97 .

- 1953 Dec 13 - Nation: Russia. Launch Vehicle: R-11.

R-11 production decree
A government decree was issued for SKB-385 in the Urals to be responsible for series production of the R-11 and its S2.253 engine. SKB-385 had not distinguished itself in 1949-1951 when it was responsible for the first abortive attempt to put the R-1 rocket into production.

- 1953 Dec 26 - Nation: Russia.

Future cosmonaut Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov born in Moscow, Russia.

- 1953 Dec 30 - Nation: USA.

Future astronaut Dr Daniel Thomas Barry born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.

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