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ALL ABOARD FOR THE
MOON!
SCIENCE has made the trip theoretically possible. This unusual Bray Pictograph by Max Fleischer, edited by the Popular Science Monthly, has made it a visual reality.
Step aboard our newly completed sky rocket. You are invited to be a passenger to make the first trip. Certainly the obstacles have been overcome! The trip is safe, yet there is enough danger to give it zest.
Although our path will lead us through inconceivably cold regions, our passengers will be as warm as coffee in a thermos bottle, for we will be provided with every known device for comfort and safety. A week's supply of food in compressed form will be found in our cabinets. We will manufacture our own oxygen for breathing as we go.
To shoot our car into space, to a point where the earth's attraction will not draw us back, we will require 414,000 horsepower. For this terrific blast we must use radium. This mystery of science gives off only one-half of its energy in 2,000 years. No other known form of energy will give us this power.
Flash! We are oft* with a roar! When we look back, we see the earth growing smaller and smaller, as we speed off into space.
We will experience no jar or vibration, for in one end of the rocket a gyroscope is operating at a terrific speed.
In less than three days we find it necessary to prepare ourselves for a landing. The problem now is to keep from smashing the rocket, for, having broken away from the earth's gravity, the rocket will fall on the moon. To avoid this it will be necessary to reverse our power.
Gracefully the rocket glides downward and we slowly diminish our speed, and land in one of the vast craters of the moon.
After our exciting ride we experience a thrill of romance as we wander along the moon's silent trails by earth light!