January 1933

From The Space Library

Chamber's Journal in England runs a lengthy article by Phillip Ellaby Cleator, future founder of the BIS. In his article Cleator referenced Robert H. Goddard and the German rocket pioneers von Opal and Sanders (sic). After explaining the basic principles of rocketry and Newtonian physics he concluded, "Whether we like or dislike the idea, believe or disbelieve, interplanetary travel will come."

Article entitled "Leaves from a Rocketeer's Notebook" by G. Edward Pendray appears in issue #25 of Astronautics magazine.

The Memory of the Atoms a science fiction story by American Interplanetary Society founder Nathaniel Schachner and R. Lacher appears in Hugo Gernsback's Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine. Part 2 of the The Wreck of the Asteroid by co-founder Laurence E. Manning appears in the same issue.