QUICK JAUNT TO THE MOON
POSSIBILITY BEFORE 1940
FRENCH SCIENTIST’S CLAIMS
GERMAN INVENTS ROCKET
90 MINUTES AROUND WORLD
By Telegraph—Press Asan.—Copyright. Rec. 1! p.m. Paris, April 30.
That he was perfectly certain a return journey to the moon was feasible within a decade was t'he startling declaration of M. Robert Esnault Peltcrie, an eminent French scientist, at a gathering of international scientists to-day.
M. Pelterie said exhaustive study had resulted in the discovery by a German inventor, Hermann Obevth, that it was theoretically possible to make a rocket •from which gas could be expelled so as to drive the rocket 4000 yards a second.
M. Pelterie declared, the construction of a giant rocket was a question merely of patient experience and he believed that well within five years the Paris to New York journey could be completed in 24 minutes, while the whole world could be spanned in 90 minutes. “The real problem is one of finance,” said M. Pelterie. “Who will finance a journey to the moon? The construction of a rocket would cost £400,000.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1930, Page 9
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