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Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA appointed to consider the needs of the committee as to a site for experimental work, with authority to visit and inspect sites, and to secure the cooperation of the War and Navy Departments and the Weather Bureau.

Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian, elected Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA ; Joseph S. Ames was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee, a post he held until October 7, 1939.

General Electric engineers obtained first carefully instrumented heat-transfer data from supersonic flight when V-2 missile V-2 fired from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG attained 8,400 mph.

$500 million was added to the current year's budget for the guided-missile program. (In fiscal year 1950 through 1954, $700 million was spent.) Arthur C. Clarke and Ralph A. Smith begin three part series in '''Everybody's Magazine''' entitled "Conquest of the Moon". Patrick Moore delivers talk ''The Planet Mars'' to the BIS in Birmingham England.

President Eisenhower in a White House press release congratulated the Soviet scientists on SPUTNIK I . He gave a brief history of the development of the U.S.- International Geophysical year IGY satellite program and pointed to the separation of Project Vanguard from work on ballistic missiles. Moscow announces the Sputnik nosecone was also in orbit.

Robert Esnault-Pelterie , French aviation and space pioneer, loses four fingers in explosion of liquid tetranitromethane propellant. Laurence E. Manning delivers lecture to the American Interplanetary Society about getting rockets off the earth and into interplanetary space.

Life Magazine runs article about the American Rocket Society entitled "Technicians Design Model Rockets Hoping for Transatlantic Flight."

Soviet writer Jakov I. Perelman writes article "Artificial Moon" for Krasnaya Gazeta. He cites both Tsiolkovsky and Oberth.

Media:87-10-09.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

The first meeting of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute 's Astronautical section takes place at the RACF Officer's Mess on Gloucester Street in Ottawa. The executive committee is installed and three speakers deliver papers. The Clock Paradox by W.F. Campbell (National Research Council) Propulsion Systems for Space Travel by Dr H.S. Ribner (UTIA) Guidance and Control by R.D. Richmond and ...

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