JOURNEY TO THE MOON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 9

JOURNEY TO THE MOON.

PROF. OBERTH'S EXPERIMENT,

In a small Baltic bathing-place called Horst, Professor Oberth is engaged in putting the finishing touches to an exact model of the rocket in which he intends to visit the moon (writes a correspondent of the "Pesti Hirlap"). Trials will begin as soon as the weather becomes favourable. The model rocket will be shot from 20 to 50 kilometres by the explo-" sion of the gas it contains, and the instruments concealed in it will record the composition of the .atmosphere through which it travels. When the motors of the rocket are exhausted and the instruments have done their work, an auto r matic parachute will open and bring the rocket back to the earth. Professor Oberth expects his model rocket to reveal eecrets of the distant atmospheric regions on the surface of the ocean of air at the bottom of which we are living, and whose depths has not yet been exactly registered. The greatest height yet attained by an aeroplane is 13,000 metres, though balloon sounders have reached a height of 35 kilometres, Professor Oberth expects his rocket to reach a height of 100 kilometres, and if the trials prove successful the timo will have come for the first human being to reach the moon.