June 1946

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First U.S. airborne infrared tests by USAAF.

The first post-War issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society is published. It is edited by Alan Edward Slater. In the editorial it makes note that the two warring factions had produced the V-2 and atomic fission and that the two technologies now needed to be harnessed for space purposes.