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First U.S. airborne infrared tests by USAAF. The first post-War issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society is published. It is edited by Alan Edward Slater. In the editorial it makes note that the two warring factions had produced the V-2 and atomic fission and that the two technologies now needed to be harnessed for space purposes. Kenneth Gatland chairman of the ...

William H. Phillips of the Langley Flight Research Division published National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA report (TN-1027) which contained theoretical prediction of the then-not-recognized problem of roll coupling (sometimes referred to as "inertial coupling"). This phenomenon was to plague future high-speed aircraft with short wings and long fuselages, and almost 9 years passed ...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 's first hovering flights of a simplified propeller vertical takeoff landing (VTOL) airplane model conducted at Langley Laboratory. Wernher von Braun becomes an honorary member of the GfW in Stuttgart Germany. He accepts by mail from the camp at Fort Bliss.

Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt VfR , the German Rocket Society disestablished by Hitler in 1933, passed resolution calling for international conference of all astronautical societies. Secretary of Defense created Guided Missiles Interdepartmental Operational Requirements Group.

Goodyear delivered largest nonrigid airship built, the ZPN-1, to Lakehurst.

Space Science Board of 16 members established by National Academy of Sciences, with Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner as Chairman, to advise and assist in formulation of U.S. post- International Geophysical year IGY space research program and to foster cooperation with space scientists in other nations. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA -USAF meetings concerning applicability of all ...

NASA issued Research Memo (4-17-59L) entitled "Airplane Measurements of Atmospheric Turbulence at Altitudes between 20,000 and 55,000 feet for Four Geographic Areas," analysing data acquired by Lockheed U-2 aircraft over western United States, England and Western Europe, Turkey, and Japan. Deployment of first USAF operational Thor IRBM squadron to the United Kingdom. Operating velocity ...

The American Interplanetary Society publishes the first issue of their “Bulletin” which becomes Astronautics magazine ''Astronautics'' in May 1932 it claims, “Among the principal aims of the American Interplanetary Society are the promotion of interest in interplanetary exploration and travel, and the mutual enlightenment of its members concerning the problems involved. To these ...

Nikolai Rynin organizes The First International Exhibition of Models of Interplanetary Apparatus and Mechanisms in Moscow. File:Exhibit2nd.mp4 3D Reconstruction of the world's first space exhibit. 1927 Moscow. ''Can We Fly to the Planets?'' an editorial appears in Science and Invention magazine. The article was translated from the German magazine '' ...

Volume 3 2 of The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society was published in Liverpool England. Included was an article about experiments by the Cleveland Rocket Society. Another article about the Australian Rocket Society discussed an attempted rocket launch across the Brisbane River. ''Reverse Universe'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder ...

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