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Soviet Cities on the Moon? Soviet Cities on the Moon? Albert Parry. We advertise our failures, but the Soviets don’t. For all we know, Moscow’s scientists and engineers did try to shoot a rocket to the moon last November 7, to celebrate the 4. Communist seizure of power in Russia, but failed. You will recall that for a while, during that weekend, some mysterious radio signals were heard from outer space.
They were not accountable by the two Sputniks, and soon they faded out. We may surmise that, in their try for the moon, the Soviet shooting team took a wrong aim, and that the rocket they fired is now either orbiting around the sun or is lost in space. But whether or not there indeed was such an attempt, the Soviets are certain to try sending a rocket to the moon, and soon, too. The moon is very much the Reds’ next target. Moscow has laid its plans, and will surely make an effort to carry them out. At first it will be an unmanned rocket; in fact, several of them.
Later the Soviet rockets to the moon will be manned. Finally, Soviet men will stay on the moon, either for definite periods of time or permanently. Such is the Kremlin’s announced agenda. The Russians say they will build special lunar cities with unique atmospheric pressures so arranged as to enable humans to survive and thrive on the moon. We have this on the authority of Prof. Varvarov, chairman of the Astronautics Section of DOSAAF, the initials standing for the Russian name of the Volunteer Organization of Aiding the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy of the Soviet Union, the civil- defense apparatus of that country.
It will be, the Russian professor points out, a pressure one- third less than now present on the earth at sea level, but it will contain more oxygen than we now have at sea level, and so the earth’s man when transported to the moon will be “able to breathe without any unpleasantness for his health.”The Red city will be constructed in one of the lunar craters, under a tremendous dome of glass and furnished with aluminum doors which Prof. Varvarov calls “air- locks.” Inside, at every half- mile or so, the city will be partitioned by glass walls with double doors. These will minimize the damage that may result from falling meteorites or other accidents. The walls will play a role similar to that now served by an ocean- liner’s water- tight compartments.“We will find it expensive to transport food from the earth to the moon,” declares Varvarov. Therefore our future lunar settlements will have to be self- sufficient insofar as food is concerned.”Because of the difference in gravity, all plants will grow fantastically big when transplanted to the moon: “A radish will be as tall as a date palm grows on earth.
Onions will send forth sprouts 3. A number of solar- and atomic- energy stations will be built on the moon by the Soviet man of the future. With the aid of these, the moon’s light, water, and other necessities will be provided. Aluminum, glass, plastics, oxygen, and nitrogen will all come from lunar ores. Soviet men, exploring the moon, exploiting its natural resources, and building those lunar cities, are shown in the recently completed Moscow film, Road Into Interstellar Space. This movie was produced with the help of a large group of Soviet scientists specializing in astrophysics and astronautics. Varvarov must have been among these advisers.
The main industry of the future Red lunar settlements, as envisaged by Varvarov in his writings, will be the manufacture of spaceships and spaceship fuel. For after the moon, Mars and Venus will be the Soviet targets, with the moon serving as a way station and a ship- and- fuel depot en route to those planets. It won’t be easy, Soviet periodicals warn their readers, but it can be done. How tremendous an undertaking even the sending of an unmanned rocket to the very first target. So says the Moscow Pravda as it acquaints Russians with the following figures: To cover the distance equal to that between the earth and the moon, a pedestrian would have to be in ceaseless motion for 8 years and 2. A Soviet rocket to the moon, at some 2. Even if a Red rocket cannot reach the moon for a while yet, it may be able to circle the moon and then return to any point of the Soviet part of our globe.
This is the so- called Operation Boomerang, now being planned by Prof. Chebotarev of Moscow . It stems from the computations made by Prof.
Chebotarev and his staff at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. This Russian professor declares: “Up to now scientists have based their projects of interplanetary flights on the use of multi- stage rockets, which need a great supply of fuel for the flight’s entire duration. But all we really need is an initial push. Then, through inertia and the law of universal gravitation, the rocket will fly along a certain trajectory, circle the moon, and return to us.”The initial push in launching this rocket will take only 1. Red scientist. He describes his rocket thusly: Shaped like an elongated ellipse, the rocket will contain a radio transmitter and movie- and- photo cameras, giving the Soviets valuable data of the lunar surface from a closer distance than ever before, and, most importantly, of that part of the moon (4.
The USSR pioneered the exploration of the Moon with a series of unmanned missions from 1958 to. Russian Moon missions face.
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The rocket will come back like a boomerang, says Prof. Chebotarev; or, yet more correctly, “like a stone thrown upward.” Its speed will diminish “as in the stone when it as^ cends, until its speed is zero.” Dropping back to earth, the rocket will resume its former speed. To save the rocket from smashing on return, it will be equipped*with an automatic parachute set to open at a certain height on its way back to earth. Following Operation Boomerang, or launched simultaneously, there may be a Soviet rocket aimed to hit the moon rather than circle it. This may have a hydrogen warhead, meant to explode on striking the moon on a night when the latter is not visible to us. The explosion would then produce for us illumination stronger than ordinary moonlight even at the moon’s fullest. If achieved, this would be eloquent propagandistic proof of Soviet political and technological power, indeed.
Of a more peaceful yet most practical value could be Red rockets landing on the moon with no explosions, but with instruments that would broadcast back to the Soviets important scientific data on the state of the moon’s affairs. In the Moscow press these days, Yuri S. Khlebtsevich declares that such rockets would send back to Rusian scientists plentiful radio and television reports from the moon. He maintains that such a landing and such consequent broadcasts may be organized by the Soviets not later than the beginning of the next decade . That it can reach the moon, he has no doubts.
After these unmanned rockets will come manned ones. Manned rockets, which are predicted by Khlebtsevich for 1. And so on and on, until . This is the Lunar- Venus- Martian schedule of flight, showing exactly or approximately when, by what year if not month, the Russians will reach first the moon, then Venus, and finally Mars. Norman Mac. Kenzie, president of the University of British Columbia, one of Canada’s leading experts in international law. That is why they intend, as soon as they are able, to have human beings in those Soviet interplanetary rockets, and to establish permanent man- staffed Russian stations on the moon and further yet.
Khlebtsevich professes to be disturbed by the fears recently expressed by some Americans that the Russians would appropriate and fortify the moon once their manned rockets reach it. He reassures us: “The aim of the Soviet scientists is not at all to build military bases on the moon so as to threaten the United States from there. Our efforts in astronautics are to penetrate the secrets of cosmic space the soonest, to comprehend the measureless universe the deepest.”He is echoed by Prof. Anatoly Blagonravov, head of the Technical Sciences Division of the Soviet Acad- emy of Sciences. This Red professor, who visited the United States last fall and happened to be attending a scientific conference in Washington when the news of Sputnik I astounded the world, also tries to dismiss such American misgivings.
He writes that such fears are “an absurdity to any sober- thinking military expert in any country” who surely knows that “the hoisting of any national flag on the moon should not be the basic goal” of any astronauts, be they Soviet or American. A piquant fact, little advertised by Moscow, is that “Pacifist” Blagonravov is not only a professor but also a lieutenant- general in Soviet artillery, president of the Soviet Academy of Artillery Sciences, and author of a score of treatises on aviation arms. Both Khlebtsevich and Blagonravov protest that the future Soviet take- over of the moon. As if to guarantee this neutralization of the distant planets, both Khlebtsevich and ^Blagonravov suggest that America join Russia in all such peaceful rocket- researches and rocket- building, with both our brains and our dollars. A most idyllic picture is painted by the Moscow scientists as the inevitable result of this American- Russian pooling of resources.
The thrifty among us may be tempted by Khlebtsevich’s claim that Soviet blueprints of these non- military rockets “will be far less expensive than American projects” of such flights. No time like the present, urges Blagonravov: “We would be happy to establish a steady, firm contact with the scientists of the United States working in astronautics, also with American interplanetary- rocket associations.”And, if we may be a wee bit cynical, why not? From the Soviet viewpoint, that is? In all such contacts amid our contests the Soviets would always learn more from our scientists than the Soviets would in their turn impart. At least, they would try to take as much as they could but give little, if anything at all.