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Article appears in the Daily Mirror newspaper picturing Arthur C. Clarke 's ''British Interstellar Passport''. The fake passports accompanied by tickets from Liverpool to Mars were issued by the British Interplanetary Society ''for a lark''.

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Letters Patent are filed in the Province of Ontario to create the corporation " PSC Applied Research Limited ", ''...to carry on the business of research in connection with and to develop, manufacture and sell electronic, optical and mechanical instruments and equipment of all kinds; and to produce, adapt, repair, acquire and dispose of by any means, import, export, deal in, operate or ...

Part V of Kenneth W. Gatland 's series on the ''Evolution of the Guided Missile'' appears in Flight Magazine. The article features the diagram for Arthur C. Clarke 's three-satellite geosynchronous communications relay.

Part VI of Kenneth W. Gatland 's series on the ''Evolution of the Guided Missile'' appears in Flight Magazine. This features a diagram of the 1939 lunar rocket designed by the British Interplanetary Society and a design by the same organisation of a nuclear rocket. It also shows a multi-modular system with a landing craft and a reusable shuttle for ferrying crews.

Flight Magazine runs the article ''Artificial Satellites Explained'' by V.A. Firsoff. The article looks into space station designs by Harold E. Ross and Ralph A. Smith , the German A-9/A10 design, and a dumb-bell shaped deep space vehicle.

Heinz Gartmann steps down as managing director of the Stuttgart GfW after a complaint from Hans Kaiser of the Nordwestdeutsche Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung a rival group.

First year of formal graduate study in aeronautical engineering was completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and one master of science degree was awarded. Electrical Experimenter magazine features cover art by Frank Paul of spacecraft designed by Hugo Gernsback . The artwork presages the Telstar satellite of almost 50 years later. Image:EE 1915-06.jpg 300px

Paris office of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA . opened with William Knight in charge to collect and disseminate aeronautical information in Britain, France, and Italy.

Wright E-2 engine operated continuously for 250 hours at wide-open throttle, demonstrating improved durability of intake and exhaust valves.; Navy BuAer later increased engine suitability tests from 50 to 800 hours' endurance.

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