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.

Article "Latest Rocket Planes for the Stratosphere" by Noel Deisch appears in Popular Aviation magazine.