April 1936 - Launch Site: Peenemuende. Launch Complex: -. Launch Pad: -. Launch Vehicle: V-2. -
 Go-ahead to build Peenemuende Nation: Germany. The missile test range is to be a combined Army / Air Force test ground. Von Braun had found the location in December 1935, after his first choice - Briz on the island of Ruegen - was taken over by the Deutsch Arbeitsfront as a 'Kraft durch Freude' recreation camp. During his Christmas holiday, Von Braun toured the cost, and found Peenemuende. It seemed perfect - 400 km of ocean to the east for use as a missile shooting range, room along the path on the coast for tracking radars.
References: 693.
1936 May 1 - - Von Braun enters Luftwaffe. Nation: Germany. Wernher Von Braun joins the German Air Force and receives pilot training at Frankfurt/Oder and Stolp.
1936 May 11 - Launch Vehicle: Goddard. Model: Goddard L-A. -
 Goddard begins tests of his L Series of liquid fuel rockets. Nation: USA. These would run through August 9, 1938 and included 30 flight tests of 10-in.-diameter motors, in nitrogen-pressured rockets. The series was divided into three sections: A, B, and C. Section A covered development of a nitrogen-pressured flight rocket using 10 in, motors based on the K series and ran from May 11 to November 7, 1936 (L1-L7). Length of the L Series Section A rockets varied from 10 ft 11 in, to 13 ft 6 1/2 in.; diameter 18 in.; empty weight 120 to 202 lb; loaded weight 295 to 360 lb; weight oxygen about 78 lb; weight gasoline 84 lb; weight nitrogen, 4 lb.
References: 482.
1936 June 1 - -
 Russian meteorological rocket flown. Nation: USSR. Russian liquid-propellant meteorological rocket, designed by M. K. Tikhonravov, successfully flown. References: 17.
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