Show EXPLORING THE AIR New Device May Be Capable of Reaching the Moon exploration of lof of the Higher r Levels Levell of th the Air Is I. Believed to Be Entirely Entirety Feasible A method of Seining Ipp to the hitherto la payers layers r of or the air to the n region b beyond the earths earth's atmosphere and even e ns ns far as the moon Itself I Is dc de- de scribed Prof Proto Robert H. H Goddard of tit Clark Clark o In a ft recent publication r th fo i- i in n the r Smithsonian In Institution n at st ata fp a The now new apparatus I Is a multiple charge ebar a high efficiency elenc rocket of r an all entirely new ne nee e design Tics The great scientific value of or Professor Proff Pro Pro- ff fessor r experiments says r the HIP announcement lies ile In the pot p of sending ending recording t to moderate and extreme altitudes within the earths earth's atmosphere The nature of the higher levels rell of the air III t has t for tor n a Ion long time been heln a It subject of much p speculation as It to their chemical 1 composition temp temperature ture electrical nature density ozone contents The Th hl t level Ic that has ever pr hc been n reached ru up to the present Ump thus with m In instruments Is about hOUI 10 in miles mlle with a free a hal bal loon AK As the earths earth's atmosphere ex ex- extend tend some corns OO miles out there Is le a knowledge ImO nf or whirl which woi world w trl hID l the science of met with Ith It Its II record p op P pm several hours to as as- rord NI to t Its to highest lt altitude drifts horl hart 7 for a n considerable con period of time limp and may come down at a R great grent lt distance from rom It Its It's starting point It Its Its reentry recovery h by the III h sender depends on an the chance nf of Its It descent being not H pl Hand and on the willingness of the finder to rC urn It Thus It ma may he be days 1 r or r wp weeks k before the record taken I Is mail mad awl R On Yin the other othet hand the new rocket apparatus would go o straight up and com come 1 down the chole oj probably c consuming less than half an hour Thus dally daily observations nt fit any desired e altitude for use In weather prediction could be easily taken The Tute time of ot ascent of ot the rocket will Viti be very err short only six and one- one half minutes being required to carry the apparatus up miles mills somewhere near the outer limit of or the earths earth's at at- The too rapid descent of ot the recording Instruments could easily be bf checked by the use of a n small mall pars para chute S Prote Professor sor Goddard is at present under n a grant from the Smithsonian institution perfecting the reloading mechanism 1 whereby successive lve charges ch are Inserted in the explosion p chamber during Its upward flight and it Is hoped shortly to be able to demonstrate demon demon- strate the practicability and value alae of ot this new type of rocket |