QUESTION OF MONEY.
Journey to the Moon and Back Feasible. STARTLING- DECLARATION. PARIS, April 30. A startling declaration was made by Professor Bobert Esnault Pelterie, an eminent French scientist, at a gathering of international scientists. He said he was perfectly certain that a journey to the moon and back would be feasible within ten years.
Professor Pelterie went on to say that exhaustive study by a German inventor, Herr Herma.nn Oberth, had resulted in the discovery that it was theoretically possible to make a rocket from which gas could be expelled so as to drive the rocket 4000 yards in one second. The construction of a giant rocket would be merely a question of patient experience, said the professor. He believed that well within five years the journey from Paris to New York might be completed in 24 minutes, and that the entire world might be spanned in an hour and a half. The real problem was one of finance. Who would finance a journey to the moon? The construction of a rocket for the purpose would cost £400,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 7
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