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James H. Doolittle, Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , testified before Senate Committee on Appropriations that "four years ago, about 10 percent of our activities were associated with space; two years ago, about 25 percent ; and in 1959 we will be devoting almost half of our time on missiles, antimissiles, and satellites and other space objectives."

Department of Defense assigned responsibility for land-based ICBM/IRBM development to the USAF, and directed it to develop Minuteman solid-propellant ICBM capable of being launched from underground sites.

Strategic Air Command assigned responsibility for U.S. operational ICBM capabillty ; while the 672nd Strategic Missile Squadron, first to be equipped with USAF Douglas Thor . IRBM, was activated.

Japanese Kappa-6tw two-stage rocket flown to 30-mile altitude over Michikawa Rocket Center , Japan.

AFBMD announced development of a complete inertial guidance system to replace radio inertial system now in use. H. Rept. 2351, Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, “Construction and Equipment Authorization for National Aeronautics and Space Administration,” published to accompany H.R. 13619.

A contract was signed by the University of Manchester, Manchester, England, and the Air Force AF 61(052)-168 for $21,509. Z. Kopal, principal investigator, was to provide topographical information on the lunar surface for production of accurate lunar maps. Kopal would work at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory in France, and the data would be transmitted to the Air Force Aeronautical Chart and ...

Capt. G. E. Price flew Bell Airacobra through flight tests.

Chance Vought delivered last propellor-driven fighter, the Navy F4U Corsair, the 12,571st built since first one flew in 1940.

Army activated the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Redstone Arsenal , Huntsville, Ala., to weaponize the Redstone and to develop the Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM.

Arthur Valentine Cleaver A.V. Cleaver delivers paper entitled ''Interplanetary Flight: Is the Rocket the Only Answer?'' at the monthly meeting of the British Interplanetary Society . 58 members present. The paper was reproduced in Volume 6 No 5 June 1947 edition of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society .

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