July 1932

From The Space Library

During July-August: VfR successfully fired Mirak II rocket to height of 200 feet, after which German Army Ordnance Oflice formalized rocket development program by placing Captain-Doctor Walter Dornberger in charge of Research Station West at Kummersdorf.

In the United States Astronautics #21 is published by the American Interplanetary Society. It includes a report by Harry W. Bull on his rocket experiments at Syracuse University. Also included is a report about the termination of experiments by Robert H. Goddard due to the depression. Goddard expressed his plans to return to Clark University to take up teaching again. A committee had begun experiments on animals including work in a centrifuge. This work was undertaken by Thomas W. Norton and Laurence E. Manning. Another report mentioned the discovery of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Venus.