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Congress supplemented appropriation of Army aeronautics to $13,281,666 from $300,000 of previous fiscal year.

German blitzkrieg launched on Poland. President Roosevelt appealed to the European nations not to bomb civilian populations or unfortified cities.

123,000 airplanes and 349,000 airplane motors were produced in the United States between May 1940 and this date.

An XR-82 photographed a 2,700-mile strip of the United States from coast to coast in a single flight, using 300 individual frames and 325 feet of film.

Third International Congress on Astronautics adopted a constitution for the International Astronautical Federation ( International Astronautical Federation IAF ), at Stuttgart, Germany. Speaking at the conference Walter Dornberger reveals that the German rocket team had launched 4320 rockets during the war. Wernher von Braun is awarded the Hermann Oberth medal but is unable to ...

First aerial refueling of jet aircraft by jet tanker, a B-47 Stratojet by, a KF-47B.

''RELEASE 16-092'' '''NASA Selects Proposals for Advancing Adaptive Space Robotics, 3-D Printing and Other Key Exploration Technologies''' NASA has selected 21 research and technology proposals from American small businesses and research institutions that will enable NASA's future missions into the solar system and beyond while benefiting America's technology-driven economy here on Earth. The ...

Fred Whipple's first paper on meteoroid impacts on spacecraft, "Possible hazards to satellite vehicles from meteorites" is published by the RAND Corporation as a supplement to their May 2 1946 seminal study "Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship". Whipple would develop this into what became known as the Whipple Shield.

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