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MAN'S FIRST VENTURE IN SPACE WILL BE LIKE RIDING A BOMB
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RE rockets safe? The answer is no. Because every rocket from the smallest one used at Chinese New Year to the biggest outer space rocket gets its power from explosive fuel.
This is why many countries have laws saying that only an expert is allowed to set off fireworks. This is also why rocket men stay inside a strong cement blockhouse while they are launching a rocket.
is
your name Lora?
LORA HAS A NAME OF LATIN ORIGIN MEANING "SHE WHO WEEPS...AND YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT TROUBLES!
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Even after a rocket is in the air something may go wrong (though this is not as likely as for a mishap to cetur right at the firing). Many large rockets have devices ihat permit the men in the blockhouse to blow them into bits if they start to stray.
Did I hear you ask, “Why don't we use something safer
like a plane or balloon — if rockets are so dangerous? And won't it be dangerous for a space explorer to travel in a rocket?" The answers to these questions are that there is no other device except a rocket that will take us into outer space, and the best scientists and engineers are working out ways to make space travel safe for our astronauts.
Not enough
The reason that a balloon can- not be used to explore space is that it will not go high enough. As soon as the air is so thin that it is as light as the gas in the balloon the balloon will no long- er float.
A plane, too, cannot go high enough to explore outer space. This is because a plane depends on the oxygen In the air to burn its fuel, and when the air becomes very thin the plane mo- tor can no longer work.
A rocket, however, carries its own oxygen with it so that it can travel as high as it has power to fly.
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runs wild...
Juno Il runs
The place, Cape Canaveral rocket launching area. A huge rocket, Juno II, carrying a 90-pound satellite noses over and heads back to earth. As soon as the rocket men realiser! the device was running wild, they pushed a button to explode it in air. The rocket is pictured, spouting flames, just as it starts to explode.
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there
was no as-
- Mice rode in a model of the get the astronaut out of danger
This escape system has been in one second.
tried kind of space craft that
using full size capsules When will some day carry an astronaut
this escape rocket has such as those that will someday safely into space and back. They pulled the astronaut in his cap carry a man into space and back.
sule clear of the booster rocket, (Of course, have not, of course, safety device that has been de- the solid fuel rocket is thrown tronaut in the capsule during signed for men because this must away-or "jettisoned" as rocket these tests.) be worked by the astronaut men say. pushing a red "chicken button:"
did
the
This red button starts a solid fuel rocket burning. (Solid fuel
is used because it can be stor-
At
once
At once
Motion pictures and other re- cords of these tests show that this escape system works very! well, but scientists and engin-
a parachute opens eers still look for ways to make ed). The escape rocket then to slow the capsule, then the it even better. So, by the time zooms away from the stricken, main recovery chute opens and we send a man into space he booster rocket as hot gasses lowers the capsule to earth at will be safe. spurt from the thres tilted nox- about 30 feet zles on the bottom. This would miles an hour.
ATOMIC POWER SOLVED THE PROBLEM OF LONG-RANGE; UNDERWATER PROPULSION! *** AIR FOR THE CREW IS
ANOTHER AND SPECIAL
PROBLEM.
a second or 20
USED AIR
FROM CREW
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HYDROGEN FLAME-
TO BURN CARZCH MONOXI DE "YO DIOXIDE (ELIMINATE HYDROSEN,100).
MECHANICAL CUST FILTER-
HOW ATOMIC SUBMARINE CREWS MAY GET RENEWED AIR" TO BREATHE WHILE SUBMERGED..
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