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5¢ a copy A COSMIC PUBLICATION JEDDARA OFFICIAL ORGAN THE GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER, S.F.L. J.V. Taurasi, Director ---------------------------- R. Wilson, Jr. Sec. JEDDARA is published quarterly by THE GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER of the SCIENCE FICTION LEAGUE, at 137-07 32nd Avenue, Flushing, New York. Five cents a copy, RACK ISSUES, 2nd at 5c; First all sold out. Obtainable only from RICHARD WILSON, Jr, Secretary, 86-10 117th Street, Richmond Hill, New York. This magazine is A COSMIC PUBLICATION. Volume One JUNE, 1938 NUMBER THREE THE POSSIBILITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL BY THOS. S. GARDNER The possibility and development of interplanetary travel. I really believe interplanetary travel is possible. However, it will take more than chemical rockets to do it. In spite of the statements of many eminent scientists, I believe a gravity screen can be developed, and atomic power. That is all that is needed. Every single detail is worked out right now. If once accomplished, then colonization will throw up many questions. Will the worlds be exloited, along with outlaws, pirates, and everything that usually follows the development of a new land? Or will a rigid scientific board control their development? I don't believe that any control will be maintained. Every nation that can build and finance a ship and colony will make a grab. Then wars will make a mess of things in general. It's going to take all the science now known to cope with the different conditions on other worlds. The problem of high velocities in interplanetary travel does not exist. The space vessel has only to reach a velocity of about seven to ten miles a second, depending upon the altitude to eliminate air resistance, before leaving the earth. It does not have to reach that velocity all at once. In fact our planes at their present speeds and accelerations, if kept up beyond the atmosphere, would attain the required velocity in a few minutes. Why, with only the acceleration of gravity the required velocity would be reached in under twenty minutes. You have seen tiny rockets fly into the air. As long as the gases come out at a high velocity, the rocket continues to go up. Whenever their propelling force ceases, unless the rocket has the required velocity of seven miles or more a second, it begins to return to earth---as all of the small rockets we see do. If it (Continued on Page 3) Page One
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5¢ a copy A COSMIC PUBLICATION JEDDARA OFFICIAL ORGAN THE GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER, S.F.L. J.V. Taurasi, Director ---------------------------- R. Wilson, Jr. Sec. JEDDARA is published quarterly by THE GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER of the SCIENCE FICTION LEAGUE, at 137-07 32nd Avenue, Flushing, New York. Five cents a copy, RACK ISSUES, 2nd at 5c; First all sold out. Obtainable only from RICHARD WILSON, Jr, Secretary, 86-10 117th Street, Richmond Hill, New York. This magazine is A COSMIC PUBLICATION. Volume One JUNE, 1938 NUMBER THREE THE POSSIBILITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL BY THOS. S. GARDNER The possibility and development of interplanetary travel. I really believe interplanetary travel is possible. However, it will take more than chemical rockets to do it. In spite of the statements of many eminent scientists, I believe a gravity screen can be developed, and atomic power. That is all that is needed. Every single detail is worked out right now. If once accomplished, then colonization will throw up many questions. Will the worlds be exloited, along with outlaws, pirates, and everything that usually follows the development of a new land? Or will a rigid scientific board control their development? I don't believe that any control will be maintained. Every nation that can build and finance a ship and colony will make a grab. Then wars will make a mess of things in general. It's going to take all the science now known to cope with the different conditions on other worlds. The problem of high velocities in interplanetary travel does not exist. The space vessel has only to reach a velocity of about seven to ten miles a second, depending upon the altitude to eliminate air resistance, before leaving the earth. It does not have to reach that velocity all at once. In fact our planes at their present speeds and accelerations, if kept up beyond the atmosphere, would attain the required velocity in a few minutes. Why, with only the acceleration of gravity the required velocity would be reached in under twenty minutes. You have seen tiny rockets fly into the air. As long as the gases come out at a high velocity, the rocket continues to go up. Whenever their propelling force ceases, unless the rocket has the required velocity of seven miles or more a second, it begins to return to earth---as all of the small rockets we see do. If it (Continued on Page 3) Page One
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