Show I I I I Shooting the Moon MoonS I S VIE VIENNA VIENNA-A NA-A NA A society for exploring ing universal space is to be founded In this city which several impo important tant savants here are to Join The explorer r Dr Franz Hoeff wants to tp undertake the practical attempt of or firing off a rocket at the moon The rocket would not contain human b beings bEings be- be ings but one and one-half one to six kilos of flashlight which according to exact calculation could be seen through observatory telescopes if the rocket exploded on falling o othe on oti the dark disc of f the new moon It ItI Itis Itis is alleged that such a rocket would start at the speed of more than eleven kilometers a second and would arrive on the moon within I seven ninety hours or or even even less 1 The moon flashlight rocket would I weigh about five cwt I I The money for the experiment is isto isto isto to be raised bYI the new society and if Ir the first attempt should prove I successful a second and more ambitious ambitious am experiment is intended |