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Interstellar Escape. Full escape from the gravitational pull of the sun would be tougher. Starting from the earth's surface, a ship would need 36,800 m.p.h. Soaring past Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, it would reach the outer limits of the solar system with almost no speed left. Then, like a chip on a glassy lake, it could drift for millions of years before it approached the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 25 trillion miles away from the sun. Man's spaceships can probably reach interstellar escape velocity in a generation, but there will...
...Lunik, with only a little more speed, would have swooped past Mars and soared out toward the asteroids. George Paul Sutton, professor of aeronautical engineering at M.I.T., believes that present propulsion systems with a little refinement can send a space vehicle as far as Jupiter or even to Saturn, 750 million miles from the earth...
...this system would be extremely low, but it would use little material. Ten Ibs. of thrust working for 1.5 years would speed a 50-ton spaceship to 135,000 m.p.h. At the end of this time it would have covered one billion miles, or beyond the orbit of Saturn...
...Malraux, too, had a severe comeuppance in middle age when his Communist leanings proved to have been a flirtation with the devil. Thereafter, he turned from adventuring and novel writing to art criticism, became the most eloquent, arrogant, febrile, haunting writer in the silent world of art. His new Saturn: An Essay on Goya (Phaidon; $10) illuminates a dark genius with lightning flashes of insight...
Granting Life. Saturn, which Goya painted in old age, on a wall of his house near Madrid, is certainly tyrannical. How could he have lived with such images? Apparitions, says Malraux, "stealthy at first, had taken possession of the house as of Goya himself. He had granted them a life by night, something a little more substantial than the life in black and white of his engravings and fancies, a life in monochrome painting . . . Goya knew now that if there is a loneliness where the lonely man is rejected by his fellows, there is also another where he is lonely...