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... the International Space Station in a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The news conference will be broadcast ... 's newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 11. To request credentials to participate in person or to schedule an interview, U.S. reporters must contact Johnson's newsroom by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10. Those following the briefing on social media may ask questions using the hashtag askNASA ...

October 3-31: Army transcontinental reliability and endurance flight from New York to San Francisco and return: 44 aircraft completed westbound ; 15 eastbound; and 10 planes made round trip.

Flight refueling demonstrated In a seaplane by Lt. Godfrey L. Cabot (USNR), by snatching 155 pounds of weight from a moving sea sled.

First afterburner for turbojet engines in America, built at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory .

A Navy Committee for Evaluating the Feasibility of Space Rocketry (CEFSR) was established by BuAer. In November 1945, CEFSR recommended high priority for satellite development and estimated cost between $5 and $8 million.

New world speed record of 753.4 mph in Douglas XF4D-1 Navy Sky-ray fighter, Lt. Comdr. J. B. Verdin as pilot.

Clyde J. Fitch delivers paper "Interplanetary Communication" to the members of the American Interplanetary Society in New York .

Media:80-10-03.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

''RELEASE: 11-334 NASA AWARDS HISTORIC GREEN AVIATION PRIZE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. --'' NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, competitors may end up in general aviation ...

Max Valier tests out his unmanned metal rocket railcar using 36 solid-fuel rockets. It was reported to have attained a speed of 150 mph.

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