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Time magazine runs article ''Payload to the Moon'' about the British Interplanetary Society 's design for a round trip to the moon.

New Worlds Magazine issue 4 is published in England and features ''No Chance'' by William F. Temple of the British Interplanetary Society . Image:aug1939newworlds.jpg 200px Trevor Cusack and Eric Burgess publish the first edition of Spacewards magazine which fills in the gap during the war years for British Astronautical Publications. The BIS begin a series of ...

The BIS meets at the Duke of York hotel in London and Ralph A. Smith introduces the membership to two years of work by the BIS Technical committee . The BIS lunar spacecraft. He also showed the new design for a proving stand that the committee had created.

The Evening Standard newspaper features a report on the BIS lunar spacecraft but includes errors. The reporter omitted references to landing by parachute and implied the occupant would only get broken legs from the landing. A claim which Arthur C. Clarke would late comment in the Bulletin of the BIS was "definitely excluded from our schedule."

The AGM of the BIS takes place at the Duke of York in London. In a summary published in the Bulletin of the BIS it is reported that membership to the society had swelled and that media attention had been substantial due to the January issue of JBIS in which the lunar spacecraft was unveiled. Arthur C. Clarke reports in his diary that "Hargreaves" was present.

Juvenile magazine "Modern Wonder" features a whole page on the BIS lunar spacecraft.

The Daily Express newspaper features an article by William Hickey entitled "Trying for the Moon". It covers the efforts of the BIS Technical committee and their design for a manned lunar spacecraft.

The BBC radio show "London Log" hosted by Buckley Hargreaves does a ten minute story on the British Interplanetary Society and its design for a lunar spacecraft. The script is manicured by Arthur C. Clarke .

The BIS meet at the London Science Museum in Kensington beneath the wings of the Wright Brothers aeroplane which at this time still resided in England having been refused by the museum in Washington. Ralph A. Smith demonstrates the BIS designed Coelostat.

"Reynold's News" magazine runs a back cover story on the BIS lunar spacecraft.

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