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John J. Ide appointed as technical assistant in charge of the Paris office of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , a post he held until 1940 and resumed after the end of World War II.

Baker Board, appointed by the U.S. Secretary of War to investigate the Army Air Corps, held its first meeting.

First American raid on Tokyo, by 16 North American B-25 AAF medium bombers flown off carrier Hornet, led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle.

The first Aerobee research rocket containing a biomedical experiment was launched at Holloman AFB , N. Mex.

Paul Heylandt announces that he will soon have a rocket plane capable of reaching America from Europe. His solid rockets would take eight hours. Heylandt planned to use the rockets currently being tested by Max Valier in his rocket car. ''Globe and Mail''

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-107 NASA AWARDS LORAL CONTRACT FOR LASER COMM PAYLOAD FLIGHT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Space Technology Program has awarded Space System/Loral of Palo Alto, Calif., a $3 million contract to initiate the process of hosting a space laser communications relay demonstration terminal payload aboard a Loral commercial satellite, which launches in 2016. The agreement marks the ...

'''NASA's Fermi Telescope Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources''' On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of merging black holes, was captured by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana. ...

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