Nike-Cajun research rockets fired from Wallops Island in a cooperative NACA-University of Michigan project, attained an altitude of 140,000 m.

• First Nike-Cajun research rocket.

  First Nike-Cajun research rocket successfully fired at Wallops Island, a cooperative NACA-University of Michigan project, attaining an altitude of 425,000 feet.

• First space balloon test.

  First successful launching and erection in space of a 12-foot inflatable sphere for air density measurements, using a Nike-Cajun booster system, by NACA Langley's PARD at Wallops Island, Va.

• Nike-Cajun from Fort Churchill.

  NASA fired a Nike-Cajun sounding rocket from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, containing an instrumented payload to measure data on energetic particles during a period of low solar activity.

• Nike-Cajun test.

  NASA Nike-Cajun rocket launched from Wallops Station, carrying 60-pound payload ejecting explosive charges, which fired at intervals from 20- to 80-mile altitude to provide data on density of the atmosphere.

• Nike-Cajun launches.

  Two Nike-Cajun rockets launched University of New Hamsphire-Goddard Space Flight Center payloads from NASA Wallops Station.

• Nike-Cajun rockets tests in Norway.

  First four U.S. Nike-Cajun rockets arrived in Norway for use in research program off Andoeya Island early next year.

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