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Show Rocket Tests Made In High Regions Scientists turned their atte t-to t-to the skies this week, as ro t research projects were annm,! in the United States and Au lia, and a process to obtain ' oxygen from the air was reveaW Meanwhile, 11 of the world's 1 ing scientists received recoje'1' of their achievements in the f '! of the Franklin Medal, prese7! by the Franklin Institute of i adephia. 1 Ph"' Following reports from , tralia that a British rocket b experimental mission, under t? leadership of Lieut. Gen. j Evetts has established he'adq'u ters in the small South Austa ian coastal township of Cedi the U. S. War Department nounced that captured Germ V-2 terror rockets are being 1 ready for tests next month .i White Sands, N. M. The New Mexico tests win k used to gain a new knowledge ' the physics of the upper atnio' phere, as well as for purely mij tary data on trajectories and ba' listics. Twenty-five of the super" rockets will toe fired, with a or view to be given news men m high ranking military official Several universities are lenifr. scientists to evaluate , the data which will consist mainly of ten peratures, atmospheric pressw( relative humidity and composite of the atmosphere. The Australian members of ft; British misions will explore ft; vast Nullabar Plain, a treeless grassless area of 30,000 squan miles, for a rocket-firing rangi The mission recently informed th Australian government of its pn posals for experiments, regards! as military secrets of the highs order, and which are being studis 'by the Australian army's stie:-tific stie:-tific experts. The expedition wl test self-propelled weapons, p sibly with atomic energy explosives. |