ROCKET TO THE MOON.
THE AMERICAN PREPARATIONS. First trials of the rocket which ii is hoped will reach the moon will, it is announced by Professor Robert 11. Goddard, of Clark University, the inventor, be held early iliis summer, says a Washington message. It will be designed to give off, when it strikes, a Hash that will be seen from the earth.
The Smithsonian Institution is financing the professor up to 0,000 dollars. Beyond this lie is forced to finance himself, and lie frankly states that he hopes someone sufficiently interested will give aid.
The propelling force of the rocket will be smokeless powder. The gases will be ejected from the roeekt at high velocity, and with each .successive explosion (he roeekt would be boosted higher.
The inventor explained that to reach an altitude of twenty-live miles a rocket weighing 251 b. would be necessary. Of the total weight about 171 b. would be powder. He elileulales that with an initial mass charge weighing 0,430 lb. lie could cause an explosion on the surface of the moon large enough to be seen from the earth through a telescope. This rocket would travel (>,oooft. or 7,000 ft. a second.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2266, 21 April 1921, Page 4
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198ROCKET TO THE MOON. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2266, 21 April 1921, Page 4
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