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... MUSEUM EXHIBITS AND PLANETARIUM SHOWS'' WASHINGTON -- Exhibits, planetarium shows, and community-based programming are among 18 projects NASA has selected to receive agency funding in 2012. The projects consist of 11 ...

First AAF research balloon launch (a cluster of rubber balloons) at Holloman, by New York University team under contract with Air Material Command.

Princeton University started construction of 4,000-mph wind tunnel.

World speed record regained by United States when P-80R flown by Col. Albert Boyd attained 623.8 mph at Muroc, Calif.

In meeting at Wright-Patterson, AAF and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA representatives agreed to divide responsibilities for Bell X-1 X-1 flight testing: AF exploit maximum performance in a few flights; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA acquire detailed research information.

Sigismund von Braun, brother of Wernher von Braun is interrogated by Lt. Col. M.D. Seashore as part of an intelligence to secure German war secrets.

Johannes Thiry, Secretary of Arbeitsstab Dornberger At Bad Sachsa from March-April 1945, submits 60 pages entitled "Report On Last Developments And Projects In The Field Of Guided Missiles" to the U.S. intelligence authorities outlining in detail all of the advanced work being done or proposed by the Peenemunde rocket team during the last year of the war.

President Truman designated a five-man Air Policy Committee, with Thomas K. Finletter of New York as Chairman, to submit by 1 January 1948 a broad plan to give the United States the "greatest possible benefits from aviation."

H. Julian Allen of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Ames Laboratory conceived the "blunt nose principle" which submitted that a blunt shape would absorb only one-half of 1 percent of the heat generated by the reentry of a body into the earth's atmosphere. This principle was later significant to ICBM nose cone and the Mercury capsule development.

Six U.S. Navy enlisted men began an 8-day experiment in a simulated space cabin at the Air Crew Equipment Laboratory of the Naval Air Material Center at the Philadelphia Naval Base. NASA authorized $150,000 for Army Ordnance Missile Command studies of a lunar exploration program based on Saturn-boosted systems. To be included were circumlunar vehicles, unmanned and manned; close Lunar Orbiter ...

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