Show JOURNEY TO THE MOON Get Your Rockets Rockets' Tuned Up Science has advanced to the point where when you talk about taking a n trip to the moon people no longer look sorrowfully upon you as one who has been affected ed by the fabled tabled light from that lunar orb An actual journey to the moon may become a reality sooner than one would have expected five years ago Right now in several parts of the world there are small groups of earnest experts who are quite serious serious seri serio ous a about out the prospects of travel between the planets One of those organizations is the British Interplanetary society a group of about members nearly third one of whom are arc rocket and supersonic research scientists Another An other third is made up of mechanical cal and electrical engineers radio and radar rada technicians Many researchers working on military rocket powered weapons believe that their work on rockets can be just as Important for a peaceful future as it might be for or war From the aspect of motive power they know that by the time they can send a rocket halfway hallway around the world they are likely to tobe tobe tobe be within easy reach of the next phase phase interplanetary interplanetary travel That time may not be ve very far distant Present velocity of a V 2 type rocket is about two miles a second The velocity required to send one to the most distant spot on this globe is about five miles a l second and the he estimated velocity needed to get a rocket out of the earths earth's gravitational pull Is i seven miles a second r r a I Ia But actual travel in space is still stilla a secondary consideration After Arter Afterman Afterman man has succeeded in shaking of off I earths earth's gravity pull with his rockets rockets rockets rock rock- ets the first thing he will do is to shoot a load of scientific Instruments Instruments ments Into space I The visionary scientist sees himself himself him hm- self sell sending instruments to the moon or to Mars Or arranging it so that part of his rocket would become become become be be- come a satellite to one of ot the plan plan- ets Thus through a development I of television he might see such things as the secrets of the dark side of the moon A wealth of research literally out of this world would world would be opened up long before an nn attempt could be made to begin human Interplanetary ary travel trave I I II I rt l' l i A L' L 0 rI I L 11 t |