Oct 5 1937

From The Space Library

Professor A.M. Low hosts meeting of the BIS in London where a discussion takes place between members about whether to make New York City their proposed rocket destination, rather than the Moon. Edward John Carnell and Ralph A. Smith both argued for the motion while John Happian Edwards and Arthur C. Clarke argued against. Clarke quipped that he could take a boat to New York and that the Society should concentrate on the Moon and planets as its name suggested.