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Opel Sander Rak. 1 , a glider powered with 10 rockets of 50 pounds of thrust each, made successful flight of 75 seconds, covering almost 2 miles near Frankfort-am-Main, Germany, Fritz von Opel was pilot. Max Valier operates a reaction powered car running on carbonic acid.

Russian stratosphere flight in Army balloon USSR attained a reported altitude of 60,095 feet, G. Prokofiev, K. Godunov, and E. Birnbaum as balloonists.

Agreement signed at Munich, Germany, between Germany, Britain, France, and Italy, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, an event in which the relative air strength of the major nations was a prominent factor.

13 engineers, instrument technicians, and technical observers were ordered TDY from Langley Laboratory to the Air Force test facility at Muroc, Calif., to assist in the Bell X-1 X-1 flight research program. Named as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA . Muroc Flight Test Unit, this group under Walter Williams was the origin of the NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards, ...

Research and Development Board (RDB) of DOD superseded Joint Research and Development Board, with Vannevar Bush named as Chairman.

Third Bumper-Wac launch from White Sands Proving Ground WSPG , the V-2 missile V-2 reaching 93.4 miles, the Wac Corporal not firing.

First International Congress on Astronautics held in Paris proposed creation of a permanent federation of astronautical societies.

First launching of Bell Rascal XGAM-63 air-to-surface strategic missile. The Nordwestdeutsche Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung run by Hans Kaiser in Eider Germany formally merges with the larger and more successful Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung in Stuttgart, bringing an end to inter-societal rivalry in post-war German astronautical groups.

X-15 research airplane development contract let to North American Aviation .

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-044 NASA MODIFIES LAUNCH SERVICE CONTRACT TO ADD DELTA II ROCKET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --'' NASA announced the modification of its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract with United Launch Services of Littleton, Colo., to add the Delta II rocket launch service in accordance with the contract's on-ramp provision. The modification will enable United Launch Services to offer ...

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