TO THE MOON AND BACK
. JOURNEYS PREDICTED
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PARIS, April 30.
That lie is perfectly certain that a journey to the moon and back will be quite! easible within a decade is the starfiling declaration of M. Hubert Esuault Pelterio, an earnest French scientist. It was made at a gethering of international scientists. M. Pelterio said that an exhaustive study had resulted in the discovery by a German inventor, Hermann Cherth, that it was theoretically possible to make a rocket from which gas could be expelled so as to drive the rocket a distance of four thousand yards in one second. M. Pelterio declares that the construction of a giant rocket would merely be a question of patient experience, and he 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. He says: “The problem is one of finance. Who will finance a journey to the moon ? The construction of the rocket would cast four hundred thousand sterling.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1930, Page 6
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