NUCLEAR PLANE
£ • First Tests This Year (N-Z. Prm Association—Cowri/hti LONDON, December 31. The Soviet Union promised today it would send a rocket bound for the moon and conduct the first trials of a nuclearpowered plane in 1959. Moscow Radio reported that the problem of nuclear reactions was high on the priority list of Soviet scientists for 1959 and beyond. “The prospects of conquering these sources of concentrated power are closely linked with the problem of penetrating into cosmic space,” Moscow Radio
It added that the year 1959 “will see still greater development in the field of interplanetary rockets and sputniks.
“Here the progress of technology and automation will without doubt make it possible to send an interplanetary rocket around the moon in 1959.”
The broadcast, entitled “Soviet science in 1959," continued: “Soviet scientists have been working a long time on the problem of the efficient use of atomic engines for civil aviation and the results already obtained make it possible to state that 1959 will see the first trials in this field.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28783, 2 January 1959, Page 7
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