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Professor Herrick's proposed "Venus or bust" voyage certainly would be a "bust" if the interplanetary pilot used the map drawn by TIME Artist R. M. Chapin Jr. [TIME...
...space ships of the future will not roar through the solar system, pushed by the blazing force of their atomic engines. Instead, they will coast in graceful curves, riding gravitational pulls as a glider rides the upward currents in the air. So thinks red-haired Professor (of astronomy) Samuel Herrick, 35, of the University of California at Los Angeles. Last week he was teaching an eight-man, two-girl class the delicate art of interplanetary gliding...
...clear the earth with speed to spare, says Professor Herrick, a space ship should start at 8 miles per second. Once clear, it becomes a miniature planet with an orbit of its own. The gravitation fields of surrounding bodies pull it hither & yon. By taking advantage of these pulls, the space navigator can guide his ship...
...pure space-gliding, only cheaters use power. But Professor Herrick believes that real space ships will use their power in spurts to correct their courses and climb steep gravitational grades. He does not hanker to make any voyages himself but he has thought deeply on the subject. "On a voyage to Venus," he says, "we should take both sexes, if we plan to do any colonizing...
Divorced. By Eileen Herrick Lowther, 26, 1940 "Juliet" of the tabloids: George Lowther III, 36, publicity-minded "Romeo," who brought along a reporter and two cameramen on their elopement; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...