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Ralph Andrew Smith R.A. Smith presents his paper entitled ''The Man-Carrying Rocket'' co-written with Harold Ernest Ross , at the monthly meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . The paper was reproduced in the May 1948 issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

... week at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The meeting takes place Jan. 6-10 at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd, in ... throughout the week. ''MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-006 - NASA TO HOLD COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM STATUS UPDATE JAN. 9 --CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.'' -- NASA will hold a status update news conference to discuss the ... of the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The briefing from Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be broadcast live on NASA ...

... final water landing test of the Orion crew capsule has been re-scheduled for Friday, Jan. 6, at NASA& 39;s Langley Research Center& 39;s Hydro Impact Basin in Hampton, Va. The test was originally scheduled to take place Thursday, Jan. 5, but a combination of wind and cold weather conditions prohibited pre-test operations atop ...

... images was not a serious impediment but that lack of continuity would be. ''(Sullivan, NYT, 4 Jan 75, 17)''

... living and working on the International Space Station at 12:15 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 11. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and ...

President's Finletter Commission submitted its comprehensive report entitled "Survival in the Air Age."

Northrop Aircraft Co. announced that rocket-powered test vehicles at Muroc Air Base, Calif., had attained a speed of 1,019 mph.

Gen. H. S. Vandenberg, Vice Chief of Staff, USAF, approved policy calling for development of earth satellite components and the initiation of satellite development at the proper time.

An article appears in the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper about the previous night's lecture by Dr J.W. Campbell of the University of Alberta in which he implied that spaceflight may be an engineering impossibility.

A letter by Kurt Stehling , President of the Toronto University Rocket Society , appears in the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper under the heading "Space Travel is Held Possible". Stehling rebuts Dr J.W. Campbell's assertions, made earlier that week in a lecture given to the Royal Astronomical Society, that spaceflight was unlikely. Stehling urged the Canadian and British governments to ...

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