ASTRAL FIREWORKS
INTO THE MOONSHINE
A GASEOUS PREDICTION PARIS, 30th April. . That he is perfectly certain a return journey to the7 moon is quite feasible within a decade is the startling declaration of M. Robert Esnault Pelterie. At a gathering ;of international scientists, M. Pelterie said that exhaustive sthdy had resulted in the discovery by tho German- inventor, Herr, Hermann Oberth, that it was theoretically possible to make a rocket from which gas was expelled so as to drive the rocket 4000 yards a second. M, Pelterie declares that the construction of a giant rocket is merely a question of patient experiment, and believes that well within five years the Paris to New York journey will be completed in 24 minutes, while the whole world will be spanned in 90 minutes. '' The real problem is ono of finance Who will finance the journey to the moon? The construction of the Tocket would cost £400,000."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 13
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154ASTRAL FIREWORKS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 13
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