January 1946

From The Space Library

First missile launched at Naval Air Facility, Point Mugu, Calif., a KVW-1 Loon, USN name for AAF robot bomb (JB-2) modeled on the German V-1.

In the newly launched post-war Bulletin of the BIS Chairman Eric Burgess writes a history of astronautical societies in the UK.

Kenneth Gatland chairman of the CBAS and now co-founder of the renewed BIS continues his summary of rocket propulsion in Practical Mechanics magazine. In this issues he talks about nuclear propulsion.