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...office at Convair in San Diego last week, Space Age Planner Krafft A. Ehricke inspected the first 20-in.-long model of Helios,* a chemical and nuclear spaceship he envisions for interplanetary travel. For two hours Ehricke mused over his Helios with three visitors, while he suggested minute changes in the model's engine, then gave his O.K. for its production. A full-size prototype of Ehricke's spaceship may be ten years and millions of dollars away. But next year plastic model kits of Helios, ready to assemble, will be in the hands of schoolboys around...
...When the spaceship has climbed above the atmosphere and is in orbit or on an interplanetary course, mishaps are still possible. Krafft A. Ehricke of Con-vairs Astronautics Division suggested that spaceships should be provided with "secondary vehicles"-space lifeboats that could pull away from the main ship and either return to earth or call for a rescue party...
BRAINPOWER POOL will be formed by General Motors, Thiokol and Gallery Chemical to pursue spaceship and missiles research. G.M. will contribute its engineering and missiles-guidance know-how, Thiokol will add its solid-fuel savvy, and Gallery will bring the combination considerable experience with high-energy exotic fuels...
...nozzle at very great speed. Or the propellant could be ionized and shot away from the rocket by electrical repulsion. The thrust of 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...
While Noah and family were constructing their ark last week, a crew of ballet dancers in goggles and aprons was busy on a Boston stage, pounding together a Victorian-styled spaceship for a nostalgic trip to the moon. The occasion: the U.S. premiere of Jacques Offenbach's minor operetta Voyage to the Moon, based on Jules Verne's yarn. First performed in Paris in 1875, Offenbach's Voyage caused a momentary sensation among premature space bugs, then disappeared from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera...