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- 1955 April - Nation: USSR. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: R-7 8K71.
- 1955 Apr 6 - Nation: USA.
3d glide flight. Damaged on landing. Following flight, plane returned to Bell plant for extensive modifications to landing gear system to prevent further landing accidents and for installation of its rocket engine. References: 49 , 97 .
- 1955 Apr 11 - Nation: UK.
- 1955 Apr 20 - Nation: USA.
- 1955 Apr 20 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC6. Launch Vehicle: Redstone. LV Configuration: Redstone s/n RS-9. FAILURE: Guidance system malfunction at 310 sec due to air pressure lose. ST-80 lateral guidance only.
Missile test failure. Missed aimpoint by 7,000 m. References: 439 .
- 1955 Apr 21 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Holloman . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee-Hi. LV Configuration: Aerobee-Hi.
First launcing of USAF Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket. Rocket test, 98 kg payload. Launched at 0858 local time. Reached 198 km.
- 1955 May 2 - Nation: USA. Launch Vehicle: Titan 1.
USAF approved Western Development Division proposals to inaugurate a second ICBM airframe, which became the Titan ICBM (SM-68). References: 17 .
- 1955 May 6 - Nation: USA.
- 1955 May 19 - Nation: USA.
- 1955 May 23 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Vehicle: Redstone.
Project Orbiter Conference was held at Redstone Arsenal and at Cape Canaveral. References: 17 .
- 1955 May 23 - Nation: Russia. Launch Vehicle: M-52, RSR.
P V Tsybin�s OKB-256 selected to build the RS ramjet-powered Mach 3 intercontinental reconnaissance/strike aircraft. The aircraft, air-launched from a Tu-95N bomber, was in competition with the V M Myasishchev (OKB-23) RSS-52 system.
- 1955 May 24 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC6. Launch Vehicle: Redstone. LV Configuration: Redstone s/n RS-10. FAILURE: Guidance system malfunction at 155, sec due to wiring error.
Missile test failure. Missed aimpoint by 17,200 m. References: 439 .
- 1955 May 30 - Nation: USSR.
Seventeen years after his arrest, and after ten years as head of the Soviet rocketry program, Korolev's arrest and imprisonment during Stalin's purges are rescinded.
- 1955 Jun 1 - Nation: USA. Launch Vehicle: Saturn C-3BN, Saturn C-5N, Saturn I RIFT, Pluto.
NACA Lewis Laboratory presented ARDC with results of air-breathing nuclear propulsion systems for manned applications, leading to AEC-AF Pluto project, and also initiated comparison of nuclear rocket with chemical systems for ICBM, a concept of use to Rover program. References: 17 .
- 1955 Jun 1 - Nation: USA.
First experimental use at NACA Lewis Laboratory of a "boot-strap" rocket-exhaust powered ejector to permit rocket testing at simulated high-altitude conditions without complicated and expensive exhausting facilities. References: 17 .
- 1955 Jun 15 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Holloman . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee. LV Configuration: AJ-10-27.
Special classified flight research. Launched at 1811 local time. Reached 202.8 km.
- 1955 Jun 15 - Nation: USA. Launch Vehicle: Redstone.
Chrysler Corporation received the first industrial contract for the Redstone.
- 1955 Jun 19 - Nation: USSR. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: R-7 8K71.
- 1955 Jun 20 - Nation: USA.
- 1955 Jun 23 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Holloman . Launch Vehicle: Aerobee-Hi. LV Configuration: Aerobee-Hi.
Rocket test, 90 kg payload. Burnt-out thrust chamber. Launched at 0540 local time. Reached 64 km.
- 1955 Jun 24 - Nation: USA. Launch Site: Wallops Island . Launch Vehicle: Nike-Deacon.
First Nike-Deacon sounding rocket launched at Wallops Island in cooperative USAF-NACA program of upper air density measurements. References: 17 .
- 1955 Jun 29 - Nation: USA.
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