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Jindsor Council meetings last so long, say members, that they are too hungry to be on top form, Many councillora go straight to the council chamber from their work without the chance of a snack. The Mayor got in touch with the Women's Voluntary Service. Now there will be a break for coffee and sandwiches.
"And this is how JAK sees it.....
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BIG DEMAND
BRITISH Waterways' pleasure fleet on canals and rivers will be
almost doubled in size this year. At present it consists of 14 boats, ranging from the converted "narrow beat" which makes four-berth fise-day cruises between Oxford and Birminghain, to
Nine-day beats, which carry be und six-berth molur cruisers, tween 50 and 60 passengers, carried several thousand people on A new attraction this summer will be excursions last summer five-day "sleep aboard" voyages between Nottingham and Bosten in a newly converted boat, Water Wanderer. I will have cabins Ior 10 passengers,
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1959.
ON
MEN THE MOON
As a fantastic Russian rocket circles the sun-the China Moll presents * olimpse behind the curtain shrouding Russian scientific progrcAS.
This article, adapted from the book "Sputnike in Space," was written some time ago by M. Vassiliev, a fòremost Soviet Journalist, under the direct scientiae supervision of PTO- Jestor V. V. Dobronravou, dis- Siguished member of the Soviet Academy of Science. Here is a key to Ruslan plans to be the first run on the moon.
How Russia plans to
get there first-and
build
'space cities'
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN A MAN.
How long will the car work on the moon? This depends on
MADE ROCKET HITS THE MOON? the engles, which also feed
the Instruments with electric current. They will be chgines
The Soviet scientist, Professor J. Hlebzevich, burning fuel brought from the envisages the work of such a mobile laboratory earth. Taking into account the thus:
The rocket, radar-controlled from the earth, will approach the moon.
Now it nears. the sur- face, which is covered with a thick layer of porous ilust, rocks and mineral frug- menta, The automatic in- struments, controlled from the earth, turn the rocket, and the retarding exhaust motors in the nose go into uction.
the rocket brakes lis fall and Burning the last drops of fuel, descends slowly on to the moon,
by M. Vassiliev
The
on
Every sensation experienced by this apparatus is immediate-
back to y transmitted
earth. watchers will see the screen of their televisor as clearly as though they then selves were sitting in the armoured cor.
INSTEAD of having to stere at the usual clinical white ceiling, patients in the new anaesthetic room at the Chelsea, London, Hospital for Women look up at a huge pointing In Imight colours of #farmyard seene. Designed to take their minds off their ailments,
A window opens in the upper On an order from earth, the the painting is a "pentle and light-hearted parody" writes Dr G part, and a small armoured cat clerenciver will turn in various C. Steel, ause:thetist to the hospital, in the British with caterpillar tracks descends. Medical Journal. Eighty-eight out of 100 women patients | slowly desernds on to
Jirections, choosing the easiest the path, and finally the car moves questioned had noticed the painting and 73 made favourable con- ments, "The equipment of our hospitals delly becomes more in- moon's surface slowly accord aff. It is looking for a spot for
ing to our volved and techniques more scientific, but these cannot be ap-moon's attraction is six times
concepts, for the its first serity of observations. preciated by the pallent, and it would be a pity if such advances smaller than that of the earth. were accompanied by a loss of those human touches, which are of much comfort to him," he says. "The mind of the person walling
in the anaesthetic room is particularly receptive to external im-ground, the armoured car will But having touched The
pressions."
READING MORE
Its
Its
THE SEARCH
hody, houses various instruments for
Investigating conditions reigning on the moon: umperature, composition of the
plich and use its tracks.. shape is such that as it falls it will return to its normal posi- tion like a rebounding toy. Ball, etc.
the
URING 1953 British publishers issued a total of 22,143 titles, of Now the instruments emerge It also carries cquipment to which 16,172 were new books and 5,97! were reprints or new Irum its body. A flexible gather samples of the soll to a editions. These figures given in the Bookseller. are the lughest on skeleton ejects the transmitting depth of several feet. record, being 1,424 more than the 1007 Agare, which reached and and receiving aerials. Now the passed the 20,000 mark for the first time in the history of British | complicated sensory
It is essential to know organs of publishing. A notable feature of the past year's book production the armoured car are raised the specific weight of the dusty soll has been the increase in publication of new books. The gure of tele-cyc-the television recely the layer of crushed rock of 16,172 wag 9 per cent more than in 1057.
ing camera.
which the moon's surface was originally composed. These dat are necessary before a manned recket can land.
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reduced gravity, the stock of fuck may last only a few days, or at best a few weeks.
Bot It may have supplement- ary motors' and 'accumulators which can be recharged not once but several times on the spot.
The same inexhaustible source ef energy will do this the sun which will also run the hello- electric station on the artificial salellite.
Possibly the supply of energy will be sufficient to run all the mechanisms and instruments in the armoured car during the long lunar night which lasts days. During this time, a renewal
bo of energy will impossible.
First en
on the moon will take their houses and their own Air -with them.
(A scene from the film "Dek- tination Moon.")
the rarifed atmosphere of the our NDON Tito
At such temperatures,
One cerrlos the hello-electric basic gasses which forma atmosphere would liquity.
plant. This is indispensable, The differences in temperature be-
Meanwhile, a second member astronauts will start to assemble tween day and night on the bas secured to the valves of the the hello-cicelle station in an moon amount to 280 degrees, unrolled sheet tubes connected open sunny spot, to work at full
10 the
oxygen tank, The blast uninterruptedly. "house" starts to inflate lice o balloon,
The moon's absence of air and water and ¡is unfavourable temperature conditions lead us to believe that there is no life there,
Obviously -.TVE have not It is clrcular like an Eskima'z eseen everything, and per- igloo, 24 feet in diameter and as some of our guesses may
be wrong. about nine feet high. Taking absolutely certain: Unis recon
But one thing is great care not to let the nir out, naissance Alght to the moon will the Astronauts enter their house undoubtedly take, place,
the Rest house on the moon!
Characteristic of the moon's surface are the huge "circuses," and the mountain chains which scem to have been drawn with a
The earth will send its mes- At dawn, as soon as the accu- ruler. What are they? The Once inside they are in no muintors are slightly recharged marka teft by falling meteorites burry, to shed their space sult: stars everything they need for ilfe and for their scientifle work. by the electro-generators, which by gas bubbles rising from their house must firal be warm-
tracks of their e self-started, the instruments the interior of the planet and ed. In this cave the cold is ap- Etch day the will be given a new icase of life bursting on its surface? We palling in the region of 100 car will venture a lttic further Even larger and start to transmit to the know. of nothing similar either degrees below. When the elce from their cave.
earth or on the other tric Healer's are. installed the tracts will be surveyed and a 4rth the results of their obser- on vations, then to trail across the planets.
temperature lees...now they, lunar city will ultimately arise. expanses of lunar ezas,
can remove their space sults.
FIRST CITY aler they will bave Ruceerded in transforming the whole cave into a habitation. What will the moon offer to its first inhabitants from earth? This will be most advantage In the toothlis of the nearest ous, for they will be able to mountain, they will find caves make a host of observations of all shapes and sizes. Their while remaining in this hented cerridors will lead into gigantic and lighted cave, Alled with chambers or narrow into fissures, ale brought from the earth,
the first mon to land Will there find the moon thabited? The moon's surface has been explored through telescopes for better than many regions of the
orth.
HOT AND COLD
The moon is n dead world, recording to all descriptions. The day and night las. 29.53 earth days, one lunar day being half a terrestrial month
THEIR HOUSE
Here is their first haven.
The astronauts will shoulder cech would take five men to lift a pumber of cases on earth
-and make for the hidden caves. In the most suitable
And at last the first sound
heard on the moon.
AIRTIGHT CABIN
is
་'
New arrivals will relieve tho
will not have to be sent up from pioneers. Eventually everythly earth. The resources of the
on will be discovered,
In time, the first industrial city will be
founded with a space-drome, a scientifle centre and a transit station for longer interplanetary Journeys.
But it will not be founded until long after the first plastic the house has been retransported to has earth to be put on display in a The museum next to Popov's
In the 20 hours since The sun's rays, meeting no they will build their first lunar
rocket landed, the sun. atmospheric butter, beat down house.
bardly risen in the sky, It will be one of the tasks of remorselessly, giving the surface The earth-men cover the floor second day will also be devoted Thunderbolts and Stevenson's the armoured car to choose the temperature of between 100 of the cave with a thin sheet of to work. The first transport Itecket. landing site for the eventual degrees and 120 degrees. In the plastic. One of them axes a will arrive: it lands about a mile manned rocket. The site will friable dust of the moon you kind of armadillo's shell, which from where ihe astronauts "Sputnik Into Space," pub. have to be flat, with a suble eculd cook an egg, or roast ciently hard surface without joint. deep cracks.
At night, seals with no atmo Leaving on the thick layer of spheric buffer, the surface cools scft dus the trace of its broad to shout 160 degrees below zera. tracks, the cat sels out in bis is a cold that has never search of a Blic for the first been observed
earth 11 lunar eparc-drome.
natural condlilons.
at the back has
Q
instead of a door.
window landed.
Rated by Souvenir Press, was first published in Russia, where After unicading this rocket, it became a best seller. Al- This will be the front door of they will have a further pro- though it was not intended to their "hotwe,” a double door vision of oxygen, a small cater be read outside that country, it opening in successive sections, pillar vehicle with an airtight was brought from behind the If opened simultaneously the cabin and its own fuel, The Iron Curtain and published warm air would leave the pilotless rockets init now Arst in Italy, then in England "house" and mix with the arrive without interruption. and later in America.
'They can put me in orbit round the sun any time they like!!
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