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USAF relinquished responsibility for Army's missile program and Army assigned primary responsibility for it to Ordnance. Soviet MiG-15 first flew but engine performance was unsatisfactory, a problem solved with purchase of 55 British Derwent V and Nene (4,500-pound thrust) engines, first placed in series production, then improved with the RD-45 engine (5,000-pound thrust) and the VK1 (6,000- ...

Project Mercury astronauts completed disorientation flights on three-axis space-flight simulator, the MASTIF (Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility), at NASA Lewis Research Center . Portion of Chincoteague (Va.) Naval Air Station transferred to NASA for use in connection with Wallops Station rocket range.

Sergei P. Korolev moved to Moscow Higher Technical school MVTU where he took courses in aeronautics, aerodynamics and engine design.

Robert C. Truax visits the British Interplanetary Society while on leave from his US Navy ship in England.

The third edition of The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society is cut down to only eight pages due to economic constraints. Philip Ellaby Cleator announced that new fellow members were G. Edward Pendray of the American Interplanetary Society , Professor Archibald Montgomery Low A.M. Low (who wrote an article for this issue) and Friedrich Schmiedl of Germany. Jakov I ...

The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society listed Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke as Treasurer. Artist Ralph Andrew Smith R.A. Smith is listed as Organising Secretary. Dr Edwin F. Northrup of the Ajax Electrothermic Corporation in Trenton New Jersey begins a correspondence with the BIS through treasurer Clarke. Northrup is a theoretical pioneer of electromagnetic ...

The second edition of the Bulletin of the American Interplanetary Society was published. Announcements include an application for membership by Robert Esnault-Pelterie and the preparation of a book about Max Valier by G. Edward Pendray . Articles include "Getting Away From the Earth" by Laurence E. Manning , "Can Man Exist in Outer Space" by Charles P. Mason and "Navigation ...

''Pacifica'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine. Maurice K. Hanson of the British Interplanetary Society publishes issue 5 of Novae Terrae magazine in Nuneaton England. Image:jul1936novaeterrae.jpg

''Sterile Planet'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Stories magazine. Leslie J. Johnson and Eric Frank Russell of the BIS write "Seeker of Tomorrow" which appears in the same issue of Astounding. Maurice K. Hanson of the British Interplanetary Society publishes issue 15 of Novae Terrae ...

“New Miracles of the Telephone Age” article appears in National Geographic Magazine . Wernher von Braun and Heinz Haber sign contracts with the Walt Disney Company to develop movies about space travel.

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