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Secretary of the NACA was instructed by the committee to communicate with the Government departments, the result of investigation with regard to aeronautical activity, and to recommend or advise the Secretaries of the separate departments of the Government to continue and foster experimental development.

ZR-3 (later renamed Los Angeles), a German dirigible constructed for the U.S. Navy under a reparations agreement, arrived at Lakehurst, N.J., after flying the Atlantic, by German crew under Dr. Hugo Eckener.

Premier of German movie film, Frau Im Mond (The Girl in the Moon) directed by Fritz Lang , which assisted popular awareness of rocket potentialities in Germany. The film is shown at the UFA-Palace in Berlin. The movie is based on the novel by Thea von Harbou. Hermann Oberth is technical consultant. According to Willy Ley only two members of the Verein für Raumschiffahrt were ...

Institute of Aeronautical Sciences was incorporated in New York.

Details of gyro fluxgate compass, giving accurate readings despite violent aircraft movements, made public by Bendix Aviation .

Douglas A4D Skyhawk set a new closed-course speed record of 695.163 mph.

Soviet and Western scientists agree at a conference in Barcelona to swap data about satellites under the Project Moonwatch program. American reports state that small U.S. satellites will be launched in December, but fully equipped American satellites will not fly until March 1958. ''Globe and Mail''

''RELEASE: 12-350 NASA AND UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE COMPLETE SPACE ACT AGREEMENT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA partner United Launch Alliance (ULA) has completed the fifth and final milestone for its Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) agreement with the agency's Commercial Crew Program. The Hazard, System Safety and Probabilistic Risk Assessment detailed how ULA's Atlas V rocket launch system ...

''RELEASE: 10-295'' ''NASA'S FERMI TELESCOPE DISCOVERS GIANT STRUCTURE IN OUR GALAXY'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. "What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that ...

Arthur C. Clarke writes to Frederick I. Ordway III sending him an application form to join the British Interplanetary Society .

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