Jul 1 1924

From The Space Library

Dr. George W. Lewis appointed Director of Aeronautical Research of NACA, a post he held until 1947.

Frst continuous night-and-day transcontinental airmail service initiated between New York and San Francisco by Post Office Department pilots, a service which was first instituted on September 8, 1920, but had stopped.

First issue of "The Rocket" is published by the Soviet Society of Interplanetary Travel.