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...answer: RCA's subsidiary, NBC, had already named Mrs. Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-Wellesley president, ex-WAVE Commander, to its board. Moreover, said Sarnoff, she had proved so valuable that RCA would name her to its own board at the first opportunity. Last week, when Director Arthur E. Braun resigned, RCA's board kept Sarnoff's word, elected Mrs. Horton as its first woman member...
...delegates attacked nearly every angle of designing, launching, supplying and utilizing satellites, and none had given the matter closer study than Dr. Wernher von Braun, a member of the American Rocket Society. Von Braun is no impractical dreamer; he was the chief developer of the German V-2 rocket. He is now hard at work for the U.S. Army at Huntsville, Ala.; his paper was read...
...considerable detail, Von Braun sketched out a full-dress flight to Mars. It could be done, he wrote, by using two satellite stations as intermediate refueling and supply bases. The first satellite station would revolve around the earth and form the starting point for the interplanetary voyaging. The second would be established in an orbit around Mars. Then specially designed "landing boats" would descend into the thin Martian atmosphere to explore the planet's surface...
...Mars & Back. Von Braun's Marsprojekt would be a very considerable effort. Forty-six three-stage rocket ships, weighing 6,400 tons each* at takeoff, would have to make 950 trips above the earth's atmosphere, carrying cargo (39.4 tons of pay load per trip) and fuel to build and stock the satellite filling station. On this base, ten orbit-to-orbit spaceships would be assembled. Taking off for Mars, they would establish a second filling station in an orbit around that planet. Enough fuel and supplies would remain to set 50 men down on Mars in three...
...round trip, Von Braun figured, would take two years and 239 days. The fuel required for the project, including establishing the satellites: 5,356,600 tons. Von Braun admitted that this is a lot of fuel, but he pointed out that one-tenth as much was burned up during the Berlin airlift "just because of a little misunderstanding among diplomats." He hoped that when mankind enters the cosmic age, "wars will be a thing of the past . . . and people will be ready to foot the fuel bill for a voyage to our neighbors in space...