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Show 'HIT ROCKET I SOON READY J FOB TEST I Professor Robert Goddard's Rocket, Which Is Expected To Travel 70 Miles in Air, Is Ready WORCHESTER, Mass, An actual g l:m,. m i ;.. lard's iL. I hich it Is claimt d, can ti vertically seventy miles In the air will gaBI initue ncre Bnorciy, i he time and rr place l ave ot yet been definitely de- mLUIw i BM rocket, it la said is practically read) to be tried out It weighs thlr- PVS? pounds, twenty-five of which is FwPf highly explosive. A sufficiently large IrttY! ro k : would hit the moon, it is f fill Proft wor Goddard started his invention in-vention during the war and has been WjfiTi a: work on It since. His laboratory t mL'lil a: thai time waa carefully guarded bv ! soldiers, as the rocket was expected JHH frrible wH '' 1 ngine of d Btructlon t apable of shooting two hundred or more nVilo ksWEM The Smithsonian Institute and the I cfwfil war Department provided ;i working iP fYi fund of more than 6,0Q0. ( lark Col- " utili whei Professor Goddard is head UnH?! i Hi- ii' ianmi nt of phvsics. gave him tW&f&Z He aiso received as- HH11 il ince from Worchester Polytechnic ilnit'i Th. propulsion power of the rocket BkSpS lies m the internal combustion engine rrfJ ' b3 rint lj pulverized smoke- f i"''" ' or uquio explosive at re- 4J'I ular interval timed bj - lock wo.k. s. r,i r,', n" onter cylindrical &!& Shell ol thin metal 'Ihe combustion llMLnYl chamber opens inlo a nozzle, each cx- pioding cartridge giving the rocket a RlB? further kick Into space, 1 HEl? OO |