1952

1952

January 4th
Mars base Utopia Planitia is completed , the second Netherlands Mars which construction began in 1950 can house more then 200 royal Netherlands space force personal , and will act as the communications and support base for the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and the yet to be build space station/yard.

February 6th
Elizabeth II becomes queen upon the death of her father George VI.

February 13th
Royal Netherlands space force flagship KNRS Amsterdam (1) , enters its 18 year of service whit the royal Netherlands space force.

February 18th
The republic of Turkey joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

February 26th
Prime minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has its own atomic bomb , and that it will begin conducting test.

March 8th
Koolhoven helikopter industrie , the Netherlands main helicopter builder and famous for building the KH-1 Kolibrie I and KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopters , is again denied permission by the Netherlands government to sell its helicopters to West Germany , France and Belgium , as the Netherlands government states that all Netherlands produced weapons , may only be used for the defense of the Netherlands and its colony’s (2).

March 22nd
Wernher von Braun publishes a article entitled man will conquer space soon, which includes ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

March 29th
United States president Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.

April 15th
The United States air force flies the B-52 Stratofortress for the first time.

April 30th
The republic of the Philippines joins the San Francisco Security Treaty.

May 21st
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.

June 10th
Two CIA agents (3) are picked up by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service as the try to investigate gas-fuel power plant Dodewaard in the Netherlands , power plant Dodewaard which is the cover for one of the three fusion power plants in the Netherlands , has already got heavy security surrounding it , but as the two agents who are arrested are from a friendly country , its decided that the security must be increased to compensate for it.

July 21st
A royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe suffers a malfunction and enters earth atmosphere , during its descent its spotted by several United states air force radars stations located on the East Coast , in responds United States air force jets are scramble , but are unable to intercept the object , as the probe has already used its self-destruct , in order to prevent it from falling in the wrong hands.

October 1st
The United Kingdom , conducts its first nuclear test , between the Montebello Islands, Western Australia , the blast is observed by one of the three remaining royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe orbiting earth.

October 14th
Entering its first year in service whit the royal Netherlands space force , KNRS ER-3 , has conducted many test , including flying at warp 3 and its maximum warp 4 , using it spatial torpedoes and its phasers against targets set up at the Amazonis Planitia test and weapons range and testing other systems its has onboard , whit these data the royal Netherlands space force has gathered , the can begin building upgraded versions of the KNRS ER-3 at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.

November 1st
The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Johnston Atoll , 1400 km west of Hawaii , the hydrogen bomb exploding whit a yield of 10.4 megatons , is the largest explosion monitored by the a royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe to date by any of three nations who tested a atomic bomb.

November 4th
Dwight Eisenhower is elected 34th US President.

December 27th
Former general of the royal Netherlands army Henri G Winkelman (4) , dies at the age of 76.

(1) the royal Netherlands space force has concluded that as long as there is no starship whit the capacity of KNRS Amsterdam , it despite it being 18 years old is to remain in service until more royal Netherlands space force starships of sufficient quality have entered in service whit the royal Netherlands space force.

(2) this none foreign weapons sale rule is also in force for the other major weapons manufactures like DAF and Fokker.

(3) the two CIA agents where interrogated by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service before the where escorted and sent on a plane back to the United States , it was found out true the interrogation that the CIA believes that the gas-fuel power plant Dodewaard is a cover for something but du the heavy security and the fact that nobody will speak about it who works there , the have bin unable to find out what is really going on at power plant Dodewaard.

(4) general Winkelman was the supreme commander of the royal Netherlands army from 1940 to 1945.