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German Dornier DO-X flying boat carried 169 passengers in hour flight over Lake Constance, Switzerland, the largest number of individuals ever carried in a single aircraft.

Heinrich Schreiner of Graz in Austria is granted Media:484064.pdf German patent 484064 for a liquid fuelled rocket.

Second Alaska Aerial Survey completed by Navy, mapping 13,000 square miles in southeastern Alaska.

Max Valier demonstrates his RAK-6 gas-propelled car at the Avus Speedway in Berlin. The car was powered by bottles of compressed carbon dioxide.

Westinghouse Electric authorized to construct two 19A axial-flow turbojet powerplants, thereby initiating fabrication of first practical jet engine wholly American in design.

Army Jupiter missile Jupiter (IRBM) missile successfully fired at Cape Canaveral , Fla. Four-stage rocket fired from a balloon at 100,000 feet above Eniwetok, in Operation Far Side, penetrated at least 2,700 miles into outer space.

David Lasser , president of the American Interplanetary Society delivers lecture to the membership called "The Rocket and the Next War."

A gathering of approximately a dozen science fiction fans who had traveled from New York to Philadelphia to meet at the home of SF fan Milton Rothman is sometimes touted as the first "science fiction convention".

''RELEASE: 12-268 NASA COMMERCIAL CREW PARTNER BLUE ORIGIN COMPLETES PAD ESCAPE TEST'' VAN HORN, Texas -- NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Friday at the company's West Texas launch site, firing its pusher-escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital crew capsule from a simulated propulsion module. The test was part of Blue ...

''RELEASE: 10-208'' ''NASA SELECTS INVESTIGATIONS FOR FIRST MISSION TO ENCOUNTER THE SUN'' WASHINGTON -- NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018. The small car-sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the sun's atmosphere approximately four million ...

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