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THE CHINA "MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1961.

MOON BOUND

Von Braun and

his 500-ton brainchild

called Saturn

Huntsville, Alabama.

AM standing on Saturn One, colossus of space- age boosters, in the heart of Rocket City, U.S.A. And suddenly, the full violence of America's effort to get first on to the Moon has struck home. Saturn is not just a 500-ton arvUDÚ the world by 4064. rocket. It l staggering ex- Later, with more powerfil en- perience. It makes squlus of all gines, it will send three more previous rockets. When yun men pround the Moon. stand in Saturn's shipdow, you KNOW Amerien's might.

von Braun. A man for whom a Moonlanding has been cldef ambition since childhood,

Von Braun and his rocket have become the focal point here. They have two things in common - tremendous

power

mal the itch to go..

But can they got to the Mèon in time?

The big race

"Nothing would be more don- gerous," vnb 1521111 adiniis, "Chan to get complacent about the size of our Saturn. The Bus- sions for sure have a very Oggressive programine niso, for they cannot go to the Moon on what, they have today.

The race is on. But I think we are firmly entrenched. The noney President Kennedy re- quested should le gnough- look as Congres$ keeps дру proving it each year"

Four out of the first batch of

10 prototype Sutors are now

PART THREE

by Peter Fairley

sure, such a complicated roc- ket would work.

"I not nearly as complicat-

over oceans

zoom straight there and straight

back.

Or several boosters must bo

alt. Engine tests--I witnessesl one car-splitter in which 80, happily in that. I see no reason fired off from there.

why we should have less con- tons of fuel were consumed adence in Saturn." 1# two ininutes--have guze well. The Brst prototype Is due to sour from Cape Canaveral Two methods firing pad in October. ·

carly ver.

ed as n Boeing 707 jet airliner." put in orbit around Earth, tho said, "and mothers and clamped together outside nbtes fly

save fuel, then quite atmosphero to

The "brute force route" will need a rocket developing 10 or 12 million pounds of thrust. Is basement alonu will need to contain the power Saturn, with powerful above. But the called "orbital rendezvous". has never yet been tried.

But Saturn will only permit arounkci Earth, er-In of the Muon. To get on to it and "hotted up" form-to the buck back, one of two methods must be used.

Each of these slons contains a eight of the Redstone rockets

cluster of fight

which launched Alan Shepard into space, and well over a million parts. I asked than

von Braun how he could be

Today in this red earth city of hord driven rocketinen, who This is the basle booster that gladly skip sleep and eat lunch thru at their desks, there is only one willi

ilet be used 10 astronauts and full-sized thing of greater stature spaceship Apollo - into orbit Saturn-its creator, Dr Werner

New York.

JEAN CAMPBELL'S

NEW YORK NEWSLETTER

THAT gay and gaudy

grandee of Broad- way, Mr Billy Rose, has just bought a house on British territory.

This Is Billy's third home. Already he owns 2 private island kingdom in Long Island Sound and a New York Town Foure with these startling statis- ties: 55 rooms, two gurdens, 12 servanty.

Billy's new house is probably Foing to be called The Third Heaven, he tells me.

It is a pretty stope house with

D kidney-shaped swimming

pool. hullt on a hill two miles

Either a goliath rocket has to be bullt, with enough fuel to

Billy Rose's Third Heaven and it cost him £40,000

tion to the National Museum of

Israel.

Billy told mc an amusing outside Muntego Bay, Jannica.ry about one of his English

painting.

He

Major bought it from

in London he met the present Michinel Temple for ubout Earl of Warwick, who fell to

£40,000.

Billy plans to furnish it in talking of Torner. French Provencal fashion.

He

will bay furniture in New York und send it by lorry to Miami and thence by air freight ta Montego.

Billy

Is

Sixty-two-year-old going to be a boon and a blessing to the Montego Bay community, wifere women-rich women- danh about and single men are

as Janaldan

en sparce

fakes.

His

show-

marriages

Happily, 311 is not a miso- gynist.

He is, he explained to me. "cimply a ten-year matt.".

He has had three marriages

but they are all part of his dizzy und dazzling past. Today he Hver alone witli his adopted 10- year-old laughter, Vicky. The morning I visited him he was plunak to take her shopping

A new party dress. Billy mali, 5ft. Jin, but, like so many very small men. he thinks and pets with a merry maicsty. Hla New York house is by far the loveliest i have ceen on this side of the Atlantie. Unlike no many Now York homes. It does not have the atmosphere of a museum closed

insurance appraisal.

If

Yeels lived ju and loved. The

colours are vivid.

"Somewhere in the work,” said Lord Warwick, rather wist- fully, “i « Turner of Warwick Castle."

Billy grinned. "It's ini the Currkur nutside my bedroom In New York,” he replied

Bly's house is fuit of sur- prises. Open a dout, and lo! you have Vicky's playroom, all In Black, With a monk suku bụṛ made from the rubs of un old whaltry! ship. On the walis hang seven full-sized pictures by Salvador Dall portraying the Beven modern aris.

find a small gymnasturs, with a Open another door and you

burber's chair and a woman's tiny hairdressing salon.

Open yet another door and you and Billy's own bar, de- Curated with wallpaper made up of the hit songs he wrote in his heydays.

The funniest room of all is o beautiful reproduction of the Fragonard drawing-rooan In the Frick Museum.

His ex-wives

The only difference is that the heads of the Fragonard They

have changed Identity,

have become careful images of

The rooms are designed for Billy's ex-wives and favourite the whims and moods of a man people, including Clark Gable, of many parts, indeed, for a Ben Lille. Marilyn Monroe and man who likes to call himself. Marlene Dicirleti. Pin Sixth Averie Medicl,"

The main drawing room in He works through the day in panelled with. 18th century his ollee, which is a French English panelling, and the walls Empire room on the top flour Arc clustered with Romneys, of his house. is three main Raeburns. Reynolds, Lawrences projects these days Ate the and Galbaburuughs.

Stock Exchange ("Frankly. I'm

In the main hall stand Studin'# Klant sculpture of Admin, facing Aristide Mallin' Immortal sethplure "Chained Liberty,"

His bequest

The library houses a collee- tion of Hunore Daumier's minlature busts, all modelled ofter his vicis to Paria court rooms and the Chamber of Deputies.

filly has bequeathed his ono

a speculator), his two theatres the Ziegfeld and the Billy Hose), and, lastly, the Museum a Jerusalem.

It has often been sak that a meeting of Dilly, lose's friends could be held in a telephone booth.

But, in eplia of this, 'ong 'of those friends in someone Billy claims to be "the oldest and dearest thing In my life" Bernard Darwch, by asme,

This odd friendship. Won

during le 1914-181 million dollar sculptured collec« war, whên Bill worked for

Barnch on the United States Production Ecuri

I asked Billy if he would ever

think of Luying Impressionist

paintings today (his own collee- Hot was burned to cinders several years ago).

BOEINGS TO

TOKYO

"No, not now" cnid Bili, the Sybarite, with the subtle, quick noving eyes. "It's just no fun.

no fun at all, this buying at the

top of the market"

--(London Hapreta Service),

of FOUR

motors

alternative

pr-

Dr von Braun is convinced America muat perfect the bital rendezvous, for this is the key to regular, inexpensive. real- ly ambitious spaceflight. But he ls nut so sure that this is the right moment,

Direct-launch

Dr Womer von Braun, and the gigantic space booster ho created. They have two things in common: tremen- dous power and the itch to go,

pad

from segmenta, them and stand clear,

light

"But the kind of moon rocket we are thloking of will require at least seven solid boesters in its basement, each made up of zeven segments, each segment weighing 100,000 pounds.”

But a project to develop big being rushed "golids" 15

"Ir I were given a guarantee of plentiful and continuing funds by Congress," he explain ed, "I would choose the direct- leunch method, t cells for techniques that are known. So

lends Itselt best to a tight through. For in two years or so schedule or crash programine." America must decide on the in-

"But building such a rocket is which will make a

gredients for the booster system

really a very

business costly

and you have no business doing turn" ticket reality. If you try with a poor man's buchet."

During the past few days I have met many who sav the United States could take chean short-cut to the Moon by developing

solid- enormous fuelled bansters. These. they claim, wil be cheaper, simpler and incre reliable. Saturn fuelled by Ilquids. But von Braun is experience of balk

"Solid rockets have advan-

tages no pumps. valves,

etc.." he says, "but they pose

big logistic problems. People

say glibly you can Just clip them together on the fring

double the luxury; double the choice of flights:

the fare the same! first and economy class. lovely japanese, chinese and indian hostesses. wonderful food, sweet music and soft lights. when you enter our bocing you enter fairyland!

AIR-INDIA

R I DA É, APIE MOET HE

"Moon re-

It году contala "solids," "Ifquids" or a mixture of both. It is probably the biggest rot- ket Man will ever build.

The rocketmen call it NOVA. All they are sure about right row is the size of its base-and painted a blue they have just circle on the hanger wall hero to represent t

That circle is 30 ft across,

Next Week: - What

it's like on the Moon

-(London Express Jurvice), ".

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