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It's a real flying saucerLondon, Saturday.—British rocket technicians have completed blueprints for a real flying saucer—an inhabited space station revolving moonlike round the earth 22flOO miles up.CHIEF designer Mr H E R0»| could be gv«, ^told the Inter-Planetary!41 SP®?” .P/® . 111 Pn atSociety today how to Ret It space-borne and what It would do He «itdmiles* altitude. gravitation would be bain need and the ob Ject would rotate.“Becauor gravity way defeated.without it. the men. their food instruments, and bedding would float In chemically made airMen would lead normal Ihea. except that they would have to-It Wir nrorldr a watching! *kybody leaving the spare ,u-i except mat uiry wouiu have to post for effective lAernaUonall^ would similarly circle th* £**£ th^ hub^l|rcontrol . atomic enenr All *»»* »« ,hlt;- ■»»■ ’P'1 ' taWr KJ. rUta^Uh.;Urge scale rxploftiom would he | So engineer*. In rigid space J*JJJJJ* f * u ie£Jreported Immediately, making suits supplied with oxygen 7.®“. “* inrv ttrrrsecret atom-bomb tests almost could easily pul together the #l*d,n* upr^fmpossible. ‘dumped* sections of the space Purposes of the space stationThis space station would be They would )et-20 ft wide and wouk. wc*,,2 000 ton.? It would be pre- stropped on their bucksfabricated and taken up piece-which would be connected with the earth by the rocket sen ices would Include accurate weather forecasts, world-wide re-dll-rw .noin^r k. ...h lt;...,,1/1 fusion of television. astronorru-Onc engineer, he said CBi Rnd other sclcnaflc researchthe heaviest girder, becausesi by piloted freight rockets ,making M journeys and dump-|lc would ^ no weight Tools Mr Row ^d^ the prxjectcould be put down on nothing *ould cost about II30 000 iXKJto belug each load In spare up later ,Mr. Rom said the bits would . Call, but would drcle the a Jwirtta, passlifcg Exactly the same 'spot at precise intervals.and wouldn't fall, but merely would accompany the engineer at the wine speed The power of thr suns rays|America la expected to travel aoiild be needed to spin the '£16 milea.—“Mair SpecialOre*lest height yet reached by a rocket is 115 miles, but one to be launched soon In
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Fremantle Mail
Fremantle, Western Australia, AU
Sat, Nov 06, 1948
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