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Arthur C. Clarke attends an "emergency" Science Fiction Association meeting.

Final tests of Army's airplane radiotelephone at Langley Field, Va., achieved 25 miles for plane-to-plane communication and 45 miles airplane-to-ground.

Test pilot Robert O. Rahn, flying a Douglas XF-4D Skyray fighter at Edwards AFB , Muroc, Calif., established a world closed-course speed record of 728.11 mph.

USAF successfully launched pellets at a speed faster than 33,000 mph (some 8,900 mph faster than the velocity necessary to escape from the earth) by an Aerobee rocket to a height of 35 miles ; the nose section then ascended to a height of 54 miles where shaped charges blasted the pellets into space.

“Conquest of the Moon” by Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke with images by Ralph Andrew Smith R.A. Smith of the British Interplanetary Society in Everybody’s Weekly Magazine

The Ashton Reporter in England runs headline "By Rocket to the Moon". The article features a photograph of a young Eric Burgess standing next to the Manchester Interplanetary Society 's launching rack for an experimental rocket. The article explains how the Society plans to launch an experimental liquid fuel rocket from "a croft behind Ashton New Road". It goes on to describe the MIS1a ...

''RELEASE 17-083'' '''NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event''' For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra. Shortly after 8:41 a.m. EDT on Aug. 17, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space ...

''RELEASE 18-090'' '''New NASA Podcast Shares ‘Invisible’ Stories of Spaceflight''' Today, NASA released a new, limited-edition podcast called The Invisible Network, the first NASA podcast to embrace narrative storytelling. All six episodes can be downloaded and binged on NASA’s website, SoundCloud and Apple Podcasts. You may think you know NASA: astronauts, launches, Mars rovers, and so on. ...

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... . During "the Heroic Years on the North Atlantic between 27 May 1919 and 27 May 1939, there were 175 flights across the Atlantic; 142 were by airplanes, 33 by airships. . . . It ... 10 Oct 11 1969 11 Oct 12 1969 12 Oct 13 1969 13 Oct 14 1969 14 Oct 15 1969 15 Oct 16 1969 16 Oct 17 1969 17 Oct 18 1969 18 Oct 19 1969 19 Oct 20 1969 20 Oct 21 1969 21 Oct 22 ...

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