Show Shooting Into Space The question of whether It would ever ver be possible to shoot a projectile Into space that is to say entirely off the earth has long been the subject of discussion In a detailed scientific paper on the German ranged long-ranged gun which Mich h bombarded Paris last spring Major J J. J Maitland Addison Maitland-Addison writing In Inthe inthe n the Journal of ot the Royal Artillery I l says ays the requisite velocity of such agun a arun run gun Is not so EO very much higher than I what has already alread been achieved viz I a muzzle velocity of a mile per second When we arc able to Increase this to five th-c miles per second the projectile J if ft fired at a n suitable angle will travel around the earth as a grazing satellite completing its orbit between 17 and 18 times dally daily With a velocity of about about seven en miles a n second it will move of ofir Into space never to return |