JOURNEY TO THE MOON.
USE OF GIANT ROCWST. FRENCH SCIENTISTS TH»O|IY. (CKITtTD FBXBS ASSOaAWOS—»T SUSCTSJIC tTEi^gw«ru-=H3osraio»r.) (Received April 80th, 10.45 pja.) PARIS, April SO. That he is perfectly certain that the return journey from the tumi ws* <}«ite feasible within » decade, » tbe startling declaration of M. Robert E»nault Pelterie, an eminent French aeientist, speaking at a gatherbsg «* International scientists. M. PalterUi said that exhaustive study had resulted in the discovery by a German inventor, Hermann Qbertn, that it was tb««retieally possible te make a roeket froea which the gas was expelled n n Is drive the rocket four toewmad yw4a per second. M, Peiterie deolaree that the construction of a giant reeket w*a mfrely a questioq of patient ewerfment, and he believea that wefl within five years, the Paris te New *©tk Jsjirney will be complete In twenty-fwa minutes, while the whole wwld wi» be spanned in ninety minutw. "Tit wjg problem is one of finance. Who tin finance a journey to the noun wiw» t*i construction of s rocket wstH ««♦ v„U, j»I,I..— ,JUIf,W
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19916, 1 May 1930, Page 11
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