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First successful rocket-propelled RM-10 research missile for drag and heat transfer studies at transonic and supersonic speeds, making use of skin calorimeter techniques, at Wallops Island, Va. Media:1949-04-08 I14V08.pdf Langley Air Scoop Apr 8 1949

Orville Wright received first Daniel Guggenheim Medal. Robert H. Goddard receives letter from David Lasser inviting him to join the American Interplanetary Society .

Amelia Earhart established a woman's autogiro altitude record of 18,415 feet in a Whirlwind-powered Pitcairn at Willow Grove, Pa.

Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Guided Missiles was established in Headquarters USAF.

McDonnell F-101B Voodoo, powered by improved J-57 engine, made first flight.

USAF KC-135 Stratotanker ended a nonstop, nonrefueled record distance jet flight of 10,228 miles, from Tokyo to Lajes Field, Azores.

Reentry body of USAF Thor-Able recovered at the far end of the Atlantic Missile Range : first recovery after an ICBM range flight by AFMTC task force. Testifying before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Francis B. Smith, Chief of Tracking Programs for NASA, described the network of stations necessary for tracking a deep-space probe on a 24-hour basis. The stations should be ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-029'' ''NASA AWARDS GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MICROWAVE IMAGER'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a sole source contract to Ball Aerospace and Technology Corp. of Boulder, Colo., for the Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager instrument Flight Unit 2. The Global Precipitation Measurement, or GPM, mission will use an international constellation of ...

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-057 - NASA ADMINISTRATOR DISCUSSES 2014 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET PROPOSAL'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will brief reporters about the agency's fiscal year 2014 budget proposal at 3 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 10, during a media teleconference. NASA Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth Robinson will join the administrator.

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