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Shooting any sort of projectile beyond the earth's gravitational field would take enormous energy. Prewar energy sources could barely do it, even in theory. One calculation: a 100-ton spaceship would need nearly 8,000 tons of gasoline and liquid oxygen to toss it into space...
...atomic energy changed all that. One pound of fissioning uranium 235, which needs no oxygen, gives off as much energy as several thousand tons of the best non-atomic propellants. A very few pounds would be enough for the most ambitious space-voyage. Uranium 235 is not on the market, of course (or likely to be soon). Neither does anyone know how to harness it as a propellant. But such trifling obstacles do not discourage the space-voyagers. Their energy problem "solved" at last, they can henceforth revel in larger dreams...
...drown their boredom. Out of these Freudian fandangos, Author Wilder has written a highly readable novel whose episodes are frequently breathless, whose dialogue is crisp, crackling and gamy. The total effect is like watching laboratory rats whirl around more & more madly in a botr tie exhausted of everything but oxygen. The prose paces the pathology...
...little more than a mile when Colonel William H. Councill sent his pencil-slim Lockheed P-80 fighter whooshing down the runway at Long Beach, Calif. With its turbojet propulsion, the Shooting Star could cover a mile in six seconds. Councill climbed out of the mists, turned on his oxygen, headed for New York. Cities seven miles beneath him began to flash past: La Junta, Colo. (870 miles) in 1 hr. 38 min.; Salina, Kans. (1,190 miles) in 2 hr. 9 min.; Chanute Field, Ill. (1,700 miles) in 3 hr. 2 min. A tail wind pushed the Shooting...
Flying weather was bad, but the young ex-sailor was enjoying the ride. His oxygen mask seemed to give him no trouble at all. But at 16,000 feet, he suddenly began to sweat and turned blue in the face. Rushed back to the field and thence to a hospital, he died within 28 hours...