Show URNEY URNE Y TO THE MOON get your rockets tuned up oft science has advanced to the point where when you talk about taking a trip to the moon people no longer took look sorrowfully sorrow lully upon you as one who has been affected by the fabled light from rom that lunar orb an actual journey to the moon may become a reality sooner than an one would have expected ave alve years ago right eight now in several parts of the world there are small groups ol of earnest experts who are quite serl ous about the prospects of travel between the planets one ol of those chose organizations Is the british interplanetary society a group of about members nearly one third of whom are rocket and supersonic research scientists another third to Is made up of bechani mechanic cal and electrical engineers radio and radar technicians many researchers working on military rocket powered weapons believe that their work on rockets can be just as important for or a peaceful future as it might be for or war from the aspect of 0 motive power they know that by the time they can send a rocket halfway around the world they are likely to be within easy reach of 0 the next phase interplanetary travel that time may not be very far ar distant present velocity of 0 a V 2 type rocket racket 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 second and the he estimated velocity needed to get a rocket out of 0 the earths gravitational pull is seven miles a second but actual travel in space Is stilt still a secondary consideration after man has succeeded in shaking off earths gra gravity vity pull with his rockets the first thing lie he will do is to shoot a load of scientific instruments into space the visionary scientist sees himself sending instruments to the moon or to mars or arranging it so that part of his rocket would become a satellite to one of the planets thus through a development of television he might see such things as the secrets of the dark side of the moon A wealth ot of research literally out of this world would be ba opened up long before an attempt could be made to begin human interplanetary travel |