Predictions Of Rocket Travel

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29902, 16 August 1962, Page 15

Predictions Of Rocket Travel

(A.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MOSCOW, August 15. In 10 to 15 years from now rocket transport would become widely used, and then absolutely conventional, Professor G. Petrovich said in “Komsomolskaya Pravda” today, Tass reported.

Rocketeers, he said, would be able to provide these passenger intercontinental liners with engines of the required power This would make it possible to make our planet just as compact as a big city today, he said Touching on the prospects for the development of rocketry. Professor Petrovich said: •‘There can be no doubt that even before the end of our century rocket liners will be built with the engine capacity exceeding 1000 million horse power ’’

Professor Petrovich said that the first Russian liquid fuel rocket engine, built in 1930. had a pull of 20 kilogrammes Hardly 30 years had passed after that and Russia developed rocket engines with the maximum aggregate useful output of 20.000 000 horse power “The sixties wiU witness a flight to the moon,” he said.

“There can be no doubt tha! in the seventies man will visit Venus and Mars

"We shall finally unravel the secrets of the mysterious Mars satellites and its canals “Unquestionable proof will be obtained of whether we are the only reasonable possessors of our planetary system or whether we shall have to share this power with other • intelligent creatures." he said. ‘lnterplanetary Trips Near’ IN.ZP.A -Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW. August 15 The Soviet Government in a message to the governments and peoples of the world said today: “The time is nearing when the great cosmic •■naceships will undertake flights to the planets of our solar systems.”