TRIPS TO THE MOON
GERMAN ROCKET SCHEME P RELIMIN AR V EXPE RIME N T An«t and N.Z Cable > Berlin, Sept. 23.. What Dr. Johannes Winkler calls the “preliminary leap on the voyage to the moon' ’ will be taken shortly. He will (ire a rocket into space into the vicinity of Pillau, oh the l'rischenehrung, a narrow isthmus on tile eastern border of tile Danzig Bight.
Liquid air will propel the rocket, which is Oft. Gin. long. The rocket is expected to achieve a record altitude and penetrate the stratosphere, being capable of rising six miles in imin. 4osec.
Dr. Winkler says this is the forerunner of larger rockets, capable of carrying a man to the moon in four days. He contends that, by means of the rocket, the moon will be .as easily attainable as the United Slides.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3847, 1 October 1932, Page 6
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