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First successful test of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA high-speed motion-picture camera developed by C. D. Miller, conducted at Langley Laboratory, later used extensively in photographic analysis of combustion and operated up to rates of 40,000 photographs per second. Navy K-2 airship delivered to NAB Lakehurst for trials, the prototype for World War II K Class patrol ...

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden , National Bureau of Standards, delivered second Wright Brothers Lecture at Columbia University.

Special Committee on "Future Research Facilities of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA " recomended creation of another laboratory; resulted in Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field.

Sergei P. Korolev arrested and sentenced to 10 years.

Robert C. Truax visits the British Interplanetary Society while on leave from his US Navy ship in England.

''Island of the Individualists'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Maurice K. Hanson of the British Interplanetary Society publishes issue 23 of Novae Terrae magazine in London England. Edward John Carnell and Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke are associate ...

''Simultaneous Worlds'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Maurice K. Hanson of the British Interplanetary Society publishes issue 27 of Novae Terrae magazine in London England. William F. Temple and Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke are associate editors. ...

Part 2 of ''Simultaneous Worlds'' a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner appears in Astounding Science Fiction magazine. In the December issue of the Bulletin of the BIS Arthur C. Clarke explains the upcoming issue of JBIS will contain the report of the BIS Technical Committee and their design for a lunar spacecraft. He ...

George Newne publisher of The Strand magazine publishes the first edition of Fantasy Thrilling Science Fiction in England. The premier issue includes ''By Rocket Ship to the Planets'' by Philip Ellaby Cleator founder of the British Interplanetary Society . Image:fantasy1938.jpg 200px Maurice K. Hanson of the British Interplanetary Society publishes issue 25 of ...

Maurice K. Hanson of the British Interplanetary Society publishes issue 20 of Novae Terrae magazine in London England. Edward John Carnell and Arthur Charles Clarke Arthur C. Clarke are associate editors. Cover art by Frank Dobby. Image:20feb1938novaeterrae.jpg 360px

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