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70^ A TRIP TO THE MOON VIA THE SKYROCKB By Jerome Lachenbruch SCIENTISTS and dreamers have longed for the moon 8ince the beginning of the worhl. Our earth-bound poets have been content to go on dreaming and weaving beautiful fancies of this unknown country. But the scientists have been tougher minded. Through the centuries they have gazed liard; and with long gaz- ing, they have begun to see the surface of that pale, far world assume various forms. And as the years passed they invented long, strange glasses of unworldly power, the better to see into their neighbor's cold home. With tlie perfection of the telescone. they were enabled to learn that the moon is a THE first accomplished trip to the probably be in the movies. These show the rocket drawn by Max Fleisc! for a picture to be sent out shortly from the Bray Pictograph Stu- dios. In the interior of this movie rocket are (alon the , left side • dynamo, radium p o w e r tank, chairs, motorcycles on which to explore the moon, food com partment, berths, lockers, gyro- scope: (along the right sidel more berths, heater, desk, water tank. planet like the earth, but mountains, extinct voleanog of canals. Other groups ot covered, by a process of c# what is known about the c» earth's ethereal surrounding! on them of the chemical eleit sun, that the moon is a cool bly supporting some form ^ With the information gathf efforts were centered on fii reach the moon and to exp] connection a step in sevei has just been taken, accon nouncement by Professor Go College of the possibility o moon by means of a skyrocl ;)eriment preliminary to the he has made a model skyrod hopes to test the charai mosphere at various hei earth's surface—heights that been unattainable because of the our means of locomotion through th To spread the good news of the sc ayman, we have been in the habit of U! papers and the magazines. But since the motion picture there is another way of clarifying the physics, and the mathematics of the project. H the motion picture limited to photography from li\in; lase of the new art has been closely circumscribe<l. development of the animated technical drawing the most inti subject lends itself to elucidation. Max Fleischer, of the Studios, has made a series of animateil ilrawings which reveal iht the task involved in reaching the moon and of overcoming them \ huge skyrocket. He has devised a machine which not only makes the but apparently feasible. Here are some of the facts concerning the trip which have proved ir obstacles to scientists of the past. The distance from the earth to the moon is . 240,000 miles. The intervening space is filled with ether whose actual com|io>itio i but whose temperature we know declines steadily. In the spacial inter>tice hctwc moon the thermometer would be found to register l-.'iS degrees below zero. But eve the feasibility of making a car sufficiently <old proof to withstand the onshuight of sue! have still to solve the question of overcoming the force of gravity. Illustrations by courtesy of Tlie Independent, This is How the Earth Looks When You Are on the Moon I 16