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Joint Army-Navy Research and Development Board created for purpose of coordinating all activities of joint interest in fields of aeronautics, atomic energy, electronics, geographical exploration, geophysical sciences, and guided missiles.

First AAF research balloon launch (a cluster of rubber balloons) at Holloman, by New York University team under contract with Air Material Command.

Ramjet missile launched which accelerated under ramjet power to Mach 3.1 at 67,200-feet altitude, at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Wallops Island.

Army announced that sea urchin eggs fertilized before Jupiter missile Jupiter nose cone flight continued to grow normally. “Space Travel Monkeys Able and Baker” article in the Illustrated London News

“Rush Hour in Space” cover story about space junk in Time Magazine

The first launch of several mail carrying rockets on Sussex Downs, carrying 2864 pieces of mail, by German rocket experimenter Gerhard Zucker . The launches were in contravention of the British Explosives Act of 1875 but were somehow allowed, despite the government strictly refusing to allow launches by the British Interplanetary Society . The launch is given front page coverage in the ...

Charles P. Mason delivers a paper entitled ''Can Man Exist in Outer Space?'' to the members of the American Interplanetary Society .

''MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-112 NASA HOLDS TELECONFERENCE ABOUT CONDITIONS AT EDGE OF SOLAR SYSTEM'' WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 9, to discuss a new computer model that shows the edge of our solar system is not smooth, but filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles. Based on Voyager data, the finding suggests we need to revise our picture ...

The BIS meets at the headquarters of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Ralph A. Smith is nominated as Chairman. Val Cleaver delivers a lecture on rocket aircraft.

''RELEASE: 13-167 - NASA FLIGHTS TARGET HOW POLLUTION, STORMS AND CLIMATE MIX'' --WASHINGTON -- NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate. NASA will conduct its most complex airborne science campaign ...

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