Aug 16 1947

From The Space Library

Physicist Martin Pomerantz announced at Swarthmore College that he had sent a flight of four free balloons, carrying cosmic ray equipment, to a record height of at least 127,000 feet.

An extraordinary general meeting of the British Interplanetary Society to discuss fees. Max W. Wholey delivers paper entitled Conditions on the Surface of Mars at the meeting.

The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury reports that Dr Marie Goyer of Keighley Yorkshire is Senior Experimental Officer at the Westcott Rocket Facility in England.