ROCKET TO THE MOON
First trials of the rocket which it is hoped will reach the moon will, it is announced by Professor Robert IT. Goddard, of Clark University, U.S.A., the inventor, he held early this year. It will be designed to give off when it strikes a flash that will be seen from the earth.
The Smithsonian Institution in financing him up to 5000 dollars. Beyond this he is forced to finance, himself, and he frankly states that he hopes someone sufficiently interested will give aid. Hie propelling force, of the rocket will l>o smokeless powder. The. gases will be ejected from the rocket at high velocity, and with each successive explosion the. rocket would be forced higher. He explained, says the "Pall Mall Gazette,” that to reach an altitude of 25 miles a rocket weighing 251 b. would be necessary. Of the total -weight about 171 h. would he powder. He calculates that with an initial mass charge weighing 64361 b. he could cause an explosion on the surface of the moon largo enough to be seen from the earth through a telescope. This rocket would travel 6000 or 7000 feet a second.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 180, 26 April 1921, Page 5
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195ROCKET TO THE MOON Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 180, 26 April 1921, Page 5
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