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First operational Boeing B-17 delivered to the GHQ Air Force at Langley Field, Va.

The BIS meet in London and decide upon a non-technical committee to disseminate information to members outside of London.

Arthur C. Clarke is made chairman for the monthly meeting of the BIS .

Lt. E. H. Barksdale and B. Jones (USAS) flew DH-4B Liberty 400 on instruments from McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, to Mitchel Field, N.Y.

BuAer Committee for Evaluating the Feasibility of Space Rocketry (CEFSR) held joint meeting with AAF representatives to work out joint satellite development program based on BuAer proposal. Nothing resulted until a subsequent Project Rand report and Navy CEFSR proposal were presented to RDB, Committee on Guided Missiles, Technical Evaluation Group in March 1948.

USN V-2 missile V-2 flight from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG took first photograph at 100-mile altitude.

First French Veronique sounding rocket launched from Columb Bechar to an altitude of 155 miles.

Robert Esnault-Pelterie sails for America to visit the American Interplanetary Society .

The BIS meet at the London Science Museum in Kensington beneath the wings of the Wright Brothers aeroplane which at this time still resided in England having been refused by the museum in Washington. Ralph A. Smith demonstrates the BIS designed Coelostat.

''RELEASE: 12-070 NASA'S TWIN GRAIL SPACECRAFT BEGIN COLLECTING LUNAR SCIENCE DATA'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a high-resolution map of the lunar gravitational field to learn about the moon's internal structure and ...

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