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... the ocean. Arctic sea ice extent on Sept. 9, the lowest point this year, was 4.33 million square kilometers (1.67 million square miles). Averaged over the month of September, ice extent was 4.61 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles). This places 2011 as the second ...

October 4-5: First Aeronautical Safety Conference held in New York under auspices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics.

The Space Age begins with SPUTNIK I , the first man-made earth satellite, launched by U.S.S.R.. It remained in orbit until January 4, 1958. It was built by Sergei Pavlovitch Korolev 's design bureau and the booster was powered by the RD-107 and RD-108 rocket engines, both built by Valentin P. Glushko 's design bureau. The National Rocket Club was organized in Washington, D.C.

Navy NC-1 flying boat, designed by Hunsaker, Richardson & Westervelt, was successfully test flown.

Mikhail K. Tikhonravov in New York Times said U.S.S.R. science made feasible space flight and creation of artificial earth satellite ; reported U.S.S.R. rocket advance equaled or exceeded West. Image:Mikhail_Klevdievich_Tikhonravov.jpg '''Mikhail Tikhonravov'''

At meeting in Rome, launching of scientific earth satellites recommended by the Special Committee for the International Geophysical year IGY (known as CSAGI).

Vandenberg AFB , first operational ICBM base in free world, was dedicated. Jet transatlantic passenger service inaugurated by British Overseas Airways.

NASA LITTLE JOE launch vehicle carrying a boilerplate Mercury capsule with a dummy escape system successfully launched from Wallops Station, Va. LUNIK III , Russia's translunar earth satellite began its photographing trip around the moon, while Premier Khrushchev was visiting Peiping. The Soviet Union launched Lunik III toward the moon on the second anniversary of Sputnik I . The ...

Reinhold Tiling receives a patent titled "Method of Producing Rockets, Especially for Aeronautic Purposes". His design is for a solid fuel rocket. The same day he receives another patent entitled "Flying Rocket" for his winged descent system for rockets. Patents 1,880,579 and 1,880,586.

Ralph A. Smith presents the work of the BIS technical committee to the membership in the form of a lecture about the proposed BIS lunar vehicle. Details of his talk were summarized by Arthur C. Clarke in the October 1938 issue of the Bulletin of the BIS .

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