Peenemuende team moved from White Sands to Huntsville References: 86 .

Composition research. Launched at 1811 local time. Reached 99.5 km.

Decree 'On creation of OKB-1 within NII-88' was issued. References: 474 .

AF flight 56. Lateral stability and control investigation. References: 49 , 97 .

AF flight 57. Buffeting, wing and tail loads. References: 49 , 97 .

AF flight 58. Buffeting, wing and tail loads. References: 49 , 97 .

Cosmic radiation; upper-air pressures and temperatures research. Ship launch. Launched at 1608 local time. Reached 169 km. NRL Viking No. 4 research rocket fired from the USS Norton Sound, near Jarvis Island in the Pacific (0.2 N 161.4 W), at the intersection of the geographic and geomagnetic equators. It set an altitude record for an American single-stage rocket and was the first firing of the Viking from shipboard.

Cosmic radiation research. Launched at 0530 local time. Reached 88.1 km.

NACA flight 34. Spanwise pressure distribution, stability and control. Pull-ups and rolls. References: 49 , 97 .

AF flight 59. Last flight of XS-1 No. 1 rocket research airplane, for RKO motion picture "Test Pilot," which was turned over to the National Air Museum at the Smithsonian on August 28th. References: 17 , 49 , 97 .

NACA flight 35. Spanwise pressure distribution, stability and control. Pull-ups and rolls. Mach 1.13 at 12810 m. References: 49 , 97 .

First Army Hermes A-1 test rocket fired at WSPG. References: 17 .

NACA flight 36. Spanwise pressure distribution, stability and control. Pull-ups and rolls. Mach 1.20. Nosewheel collapsed on landing. References: 49 , 97 .

VfR, the German Rocket Society disestablished by Hitler in 1933, passed resolution calling for international conference of all astronautical societies. References: 17 .

Sky brightness research. Launched at 1007 local time. Reached 24.8 km.

Ramjet missile launched which accelerated under ramjet power to Mach 3.1 at 67,200-feet altitude, at NACA Wallops Island. References: 17 .

FBI agents interrogate Tsien Hsue-shen on allegations that he is a Communist. The same day his security clearance is revoked, making it virtually impossible to continue meaningful work in rocketry. The allegations seem unlikely to his associates at CalTech (his wife was the daughter of one of Chiang Kai-shek's leading military strategists). Two weeks later, Tsien announces his intention to return to China. Tsien, denied the possibility to work, becomes enmeshed in a tug-of-war between differing viewpoints in the US government bureaucracy: those that want to deport him as an undesirable alien, and those that want to keep him in the country because of what he knows. References: 31 .

Department of Defense assigned range responsibilities to the armed services: Army: White Sands, N. Mex., Proving Ground and nearby Holloman Air Force Base at Alamogordo; Navy: Point Mugu, Calif.: Air Force: Long-Range Proving Groud at Banana River, Fla. (now called Cape Canaveral). References: 17 .

Temperature, pressure research. Launched at 0838 local time. Reached 92.6 km.