1941 May 8 - Launch Vehicle: Goddard. Model: Goddard P-C. -
 Goddard Series P Section C rocket flight test Nation: USA. Apogee: 0.0800 km (0.0497 mi). Second flight with pumps, altitude 250 ft; then heeled away from tower. References: 482.
1941 June 23 - Launch Vehicle: EA 1941. -
 EA 1941 development authorised. Nation: France. Barre's report worked its way through the wartime bureaucracy, finally reaching the Minister of State for War in Vichy France. It is immediately classived top secret, and Barre is given 300,000 francs to start development of a liquid propellant rocket. In order to keep the work from the notice of the occupying Germans, it is officially for development of automotive gas generators.
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