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Tycho, v. 1, issue 2, November 1942
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SPACEFLIGHT-- a Financial Deadend BY BOWEN CONWAY SPACEFLIGHT is a theme taken for granted by readers of science-fiction -- like bacon and eggs for breakfast, or the daily newspaper. It is not alone in the various comic - magazines that this naive attitude stands forth, but even in the most serious and advanced science-fiction pulps directed toward a more adult audience. It is considered by most readers that since the purely obtective problems of space-flying were worked out earlier in the history of the field -- such as in the first few years of the Gernsback Amazing and Wonder, it is now quite alright to sit back and take spaceflight in present-day science-fiction for granted. This attitude may be justified by certain conditions, but in no way does it correspond to the facts. Space-flying today -- and today is a period, when, in some of the classics of science-fiction, it was possible -- is no further advanced along the road to reality than when Goddard vanished into the great American Desert with his endowment to produce a practical rocket. Can it be said that the various experimenters in all parts of the world - notably in England, the United States, the Soviet Union, and before the calamity of Hitler, Germany - have failed to find the answers to the technical aspects of the problem? No, these answers have been found -- at
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SPACEFLIGHT-- a Financial Deadend BY BOWEN CONWAY SPACEFLIGHT is a theme taken for granted by readers of science-fiction -- like bacon and eggs for breakfast, or the daily newspaper. It is not alone in the various comic - magazines that this naive attitude stands forth, but even in the most serious and advanced science-fiction pulps directed toward a more adult audience. It is considered by most readers that since the purely obtective problems of space-flying were worked out earlier in the history of the field -- such as in the first few years of the Gernsback Amazing and Wonder, it is now quite alright to sit back and take spaceflight in present-day science-fiction for granted. This attitude may be justified by certain conditions, but in no way does it correspond to the facts. Space-flying today -- and today is a period, when, in some of the classics of science-fiction, it was possible -- is no further advanced along the road to reality than when Goddard vanished into the great American Desert with his endowment to produce a practical rocket. Can it be said that the various experimenters in all parts of the world - notably in England, the United States, the Soviet Union, and before the calamity of Hitler, Germany - have failed to find the answers to the technical aspects of the problem? No, these answers have been found -- at
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