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Bell Laboratory announced invention of the silicon solar battery. Writer Martin Caidin explains the current state of Soviet rocket development in "Man's Magazine".

Dr. John von Neumann was awarded the Enrico Fermi Award for anticipating the importance of the high-speed computer in nuclear development programs and in the general advancement of science. “Space Satellites, Tools of Earth Research” article appears in National Geographic Magazine

Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel was renamed the Rocket and Satellite Research Panel. Its chairman was James A. Van Allen of the State University of Iowa. A. Dollfus flew from Paris, France, on a cluster of 100 weather balloons to an altitude of 42,000 feet. “Rockets Explore the Air Above Us” article appears in National Geographic Magazine "The Earth Satellite Project" cover ...

The Tiros meteorological satellite program was transferred from the Department of Defense to the responsibility of NASA for the national meteorological satellite program. At the same time, a Joint Meteorological Satellite Advisory Committee was established.

Issue 18 of the Bulletin of the American Interplanetary Society is published with a new "look" and Clyde J. Fitch as editor. The new "look" includes an end to the previous method or reprinting abstracts of lectures given to the Society's membership. The new look includes original content not previously printed elsewhere. Reports include news of a new rocket being built by Johannes ...

''Worlds Don't Care'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Arthur C. Clarke composes a four page leaflet describing the aims of the BIS . "We have had a considerable quantity of these leaflets printed," wrote Clarke in the society's Bulletin. In the leaflet Clarke employs many ...

''The Revolt of the Scientists'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Hugo Gernsback 's Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine. Part 2 of ''The Man Who Awoke'' by co-founder Laurence E. Manning appears in the same issue.

''Hello Mars'' by H. Winfield Secor appears in Electrical Experimenter magazine.

''Flying in Space'' an editorial by Hugo Gernsback appears in Science and Invention magazine.

Maurice K. Hanson publishes the second edition of the first British science fiction fanzine Novae Terrae . In 1939 Hanson will become the mathematician on the British Interplanetary Society 's lunar spacecraft committee. Image:apr1936novaeterrae.jpg

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