ROCKET TO MOON.
A TWO-DAY'S JOURNEY. . EXPERTS SURE OF IT. LONDON, September 12. A space rocket which will travel to the moon in two days is being planned by rocket-flying experts in Britain, Germany and America. The British InterPlanetary Society, which has its headquarters in Liverpool, is sure this experiment will succeed. Scientists are working on a liquid fuel rocket which, travelling at a speed of seven miles a seeond, will reach the moon in two days. Experiments were conducted in America last year with a similar rocket which reached a sjieed of 700 miles an hour, but at a height of 7500 ft the fuel out and the rocket returned to earth. "stepped" rocket will be built, cacli , . three chambers being lilted with n^fv. SIVG u As speed reduced, two or the chambers would fall off, each at ox,SI 1 ,'•ll tance from the earth, and "'he rocket rOPGIU " g P ° Wer to send rocnet farther on its journey.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 8
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