Rocketdyne, which had been spun off by North American in 1955, was re-merged into Rockwell in 1984, and by that time produced most of the rocket engines used in the United States.

Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.

Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

In 1955, Ulam and C. J. Everett proposed, in contrast to Rover's continuous heating of rocket exhaust, to harness small nuclear explosions for propulsion.

He flew the observation / chase plane which monitored flight surgeon Colonel John Stapp's rocket sled run of in 1955.

The world ’ s first spaceport for orbital and human launches, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan, started as a Soviet military rocket range in 1955.

* The British Skylark ( rocket ) was first designed in 1955 and was used for 441 launches before it was terminated in 2005

In June, 1955 Bussard moved to Los Alamos and joined the Nuclear Propulsion Division's Project Rover designing nuclear thermal rocket engines.

He would remain on the Caltech faculty until his departure for China in 1955, becoming the Robert H. Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion in 1949, and establishing a reputation as one of the leading rocket scientists in the United States.

Although the project was canceled on August 3, 1955, the basic design was used for the Juno I rocket which launched Explorer 1, the first satellite launched by the United States.

This was a George Barris customised 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car from the American television series Batman and the Corgi model featured rocket launchers, pulsating red plastic ' flames ' from the engine exhaust, an operational die-cast metal chain cutting blade in the nose of the car and models of ' Batman ' and the boy-wonder ' Robin ' sitting in the seats.

The F-1 was originally developed by Rocketdyne to meet a 1955 US Air Force requirement for a very large rocket engine.

The rocket and space program of the USSR, initially boosted by the assistance of captured scientists from the advanced German rocket program, was performed mainly by Soviet engineers and scientists after 1955, and was based on some unique Soviet and Imperial Russian theoretical developments, many derived by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, sometimes known as the father of theoretical astronautics .< ref >

The Titan rocket family was established in October 1955, when the Air Force awarded The Martin Company a contract to build an intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ).

The Titan rocket family was established in October 1955 when the Air Force awarded the Glenn L. Martin Company ( later Martin Marietta and now Lockheed Martin ) a contract to build an intercontinental ballistic missile ( SM-68 ).

The rocket ARS-57 was accepted into service in April 1955, with a military designation S-5.

Rockair was a United States sounding rocket designed for launch from an airplane, which was tested 1955.

Their first experimental system, MUSIC ( Multiple Storage, Integration, and Correlation ), became operational in 1955 and was able to detect rocket launches away at Cape Canaveral, and nuclear explosions in Nevada at.

Due to engine knocking ( detonation ), the compression ratio in a gasoline or petrol-powered engine will usually not be much higher than 10: 1, although some production automotive engines built for high-performance from 1955 – 1972 had compression ratios as high as 13. 0: 1, which could run safely on the high-octane leaded gasoline then available.

In 1955 Chrysler produced the C-300 with its 300 HP 331 cu in ( 5. 4 L ) OHV engine, which easily won in 1955 and 1956.

The basic Chevrolet small-block V-8 design has remained in continuous production since its debut in 1955, longer than any other mass-produced engine in the world, although current versions share few if any parts interchangeable with the original.

Former Great Western Railway | GWR locomotive GWR 5600 Class | 6664 photographed near the engine shed at Slough, October 1955.

; Ka-18 1955: A Ka-15 with a large fuselage and a 280 hp Ivchenko AI-14VF engine.

After major accidents at the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 1957 Mille Miglia the power of sports cars was curbed with a 3 litre engine capacity limit applied to them in the World Championship from 1958.

While the 1953 and 1954 models were heavily re-worked versions of the 1949-52 Chieftain models, they were engineered to accommodate the V-8 engine that would appear in the all-new 1955 models.

Lateral view of a two-stroke Forty series British Seagull outboard engine, the serial number dates it to 1954 / 1955.

For this it had a light, easily serviceable engine, extremely soft long travel suspension ( with height adjustment by lengthening / shortening of tie rods ), high ground clearance, and for oversized loads a car-wide canvas sunroof, which ( until 1955 ) also covered the boot.

A 425 cc engine was introduced in 1955, followed in 1968 by a 602 cc one giving at 7000 rpm.

The new Studebaker-Packard Corporation ( S-P ) made the new Packard V8 engine and Packard's Ultramatic automatic transmission available to AMC for its 1955 Nash Ambassador and Hudson Hornet models.

By waiting until 1955, Packard was the last U. S. automaker to introduce a high-compression V8 engine.

In 1955 two prototype 1, 000 hp ( 746 kW ) turbine engine were built at the same plant under the guidance of G. A. Ogloblin.

Flat-4 engine in a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder

In 1955, engineer Aurelio Lampredi designed an experimental straight-twin cylinder Formula One engine on the theory that it would provide high levels of torque for tight race circuits.

The 1955 model offered a V8 engine as an option ; however, the first seven off the production line featured the standard " Blue Flame " Inline-6.

Originally limited to a mere 150 cc ( 100 cc for two-strokes ) in 1949, dimensions and engine size limitations were gradually increased ( in 1950, 1951, and 1955 ) to tempt more manufacturers to produce kei cars.

An Orbit Orange 1970 GTO with the 455 engine and Turbo Hydra-Matic transmission was one of the featured cars in the movie Two-Lane Blacktop, which depicted a cross-country race between the new GTO and a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air.

* 1955 – Westinghouse J40 engine failure causes all F3H fighters using the engine to be grounded, and all other jets using it to switch to other engines.

* 1955: Plymouth first offers a V-8 engine.

For 1955, for the first time Hudson offered a V8 engine, a Packard-designed and-built engine rated at purchased by Hudson and Nash.

Madrid won the first division for the first time as Real Madrid in 1954 and retained its title in 1955.

The division into doubles ( of various kinds ) semidoubles and simples continued until 1955, when Pope Pius XII abolished the rank of semidouble, making all the previous semidoubles simples, and reducing the previous simples to a mere commemoration in the Mass of another feast day or of the feria on which they fell ( see General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII ).

Under that pressure, the legislature re-opened the school in 1955 – as a division of the University of Idaho.

In 1955, ABC established a recording division, the AmPar Record Corporation, which founded and operated the popular label ABC-Paramount Records ( which became ABC Records in 1965 ) and the noted jazz label Impulse Records, created in 1961.

In 1955, the fort ’ s utilization changed from training and educational center to that of being the home base for a major infantry division.

( Before 1955, Chinese soldiers were assigned " functions " instead of ranks, such as " company commander ", or " division commander ").

As the missile entered production, NAA spun off Rocketdyne in 1955 as a separate division.

On 20 December 1955 the Secretary of State for War informed the House of Commons that the armoured divisions and the ' mixed ' division were to be converted to infantry, and the 16th Airborne Division reduced to a parachute brigade group.

From December 1955, the division was placed on a lower establishment, for home defence purposes only.

After British forces withdrew from Egypt the division returned to the UK for a short while in 1955 and 1956.

From December 1955, the division was placed on a lower establishment, for home defence purposes only.

The division was scrapped in 1955 and Berwick, along with the other non-reserve teams, were placed in an enlarged Division B ( renamed Division Two the following season ).

Connolly retired from provincial politics in 1955 when he was elevated to the Senate of Canada for the Halifax North, Nova Scotia division on 28 July 1955 following nomination by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.

At the federal level, Warrnambool is the largest town in the division of Wannon, which has been a safe Liberal seat since 1955.

In 1955 after winning the second division the club used a white shirt with two blue lines across the chest.

In 1955 the name of the shipbuilding division changed to Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders, Ltd and changed again in 1968 to Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group.

* Best post-War league position: 10th in Isthmian League, Premier division ( then level 6 ), 1955 – 56, 1958 – 59.

The club was promoted to the top division in 1955.

However, in 1955, the company decided to spin Imperial off as its own make and division to better compete with its rivals, Lincoln and Cadillac.

In 1949 it was promoted to Finland's top division Mestaruussarja ( now called Veikkausliiga ), and in 1955 won the inaugural Finnish Cup.

The Chrysler Corporation introduced the Imperial as a separate luxury make and division in 1955.

When Quimby retired in late 1955, Hanna and Barbera were placed in charge of MGM's animation division.

Atco Records was founded in 1955 as a division of Atlantic Records.