“Popular Mechanics,” August 1940. Cover illustration of a Space Rocket by Arthur C. Bade.
From the magazine article “Seeking Power for Space Rockets”:
“Scientists are hard-headed men. They do not speculate on traveling to the moon every time they see a sky rocket. They say simply: ‘We are experimenting with fuels for rockets. We’ve found out a few things. It may be that in the reasonably near future science will succeed in sending a rocket higher than any man-made contrivance ever traveled before. Perhaps such a rocket might reach an altitude of 500,000 feet. If a rocket could be shot that high, it could carry recording instruments which would gather information of the greatest importance. A rocket to the moon. . . Men still dream of that. But science deals with facts. Still, the dream is perhaps a little bit nearer realization.’
“Behind that simple statement is another chapter in man’s struggle to escape the chains of gravity which bind him to one planet.”
“Popular Mechanics,” August 1940. Cover illustration of a Space Rocket by Arthur C. Bade.
From the magazine article “Seeking Power for Space Rockets”:
“Scientists are hard-headed men. They do not speculate on traveling to the moon every time they see a sky rocket. They say simply: ‘We are experimenting with fuels for rockets. We’ve found out a few things. It may be that in the reasonably near future science will succeed in sending a rocket higher than any man-made contrivance ever traveled before. Perhaps such a rocket might reach an altitude of 500,000 feet. If a rocket could be shot that high, it could carry recording instruments which would gather information of the greatest importance. A rocket to the moon. . . Men still dream of that. But science deals with facts. Still, the dream is perhaps a little bit nearer realization.’
“Behind that simple statement is another chapter in man’s struggle to escape the chains of gravity which bind him to one planet.”