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Volume 2 Number 1 JANUARY 1959
EDITORIAL 2
ROCKET ON THE MOON When a rocket is sent to the Moon, how will we know that it has really arrived? And what marks will it make? T. W. Rackham 3
PIONEER : AN ACHIEVEMENT America's record-breaking Lunar Probe, which failed to reach the Moon only by the narrowest of margins Frank Pollard 7
THE ALPHONSUS OUTBREAK Patrick Moore 11
SOME SUGGESTED OBSERVATIONS OF MOON ROCKETS One of the organizers of the Moonwatch project outlines the programme of work being prepared in readiness for successful lunar probe vehicles Walter H. Haas 12
Out and AROUND 'Orbiter' 14
Sky Diary 15
Space Medicine Symposium A. E. Slater 16
THE IAF AT Amsterdam A Personal account of the Ninth International Congress on Astronautics A. E. Slater 18
NEWS DIARY Peter Bally 22
OF ACADEMIC IMPORTANCE Alice Coleman 24
CONDITIONS ON MARS Mars is said to be more Earthlike than any other planet, but what is it really like as a world? C. A. Cross sums up the conditions which the first pioneers are likely to meet C. A. Cross 25
REVIEWS 30
Volume 2 Number 2 APRIL 1959
R.A. SMITH 34
TOWARDS A COMMONWEALTH SPACE AGENCY The Vice-Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society writes in connection with the Commonwealth Spaceflight Symposium to be held in London during August, 1959 Kenneth W. Gatland 35
A PHILOSOPHY OF ASTRONAUTICS? S. W. Greenwood 38
METEORITES AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE There is a theory according to which life was first brought to our world by a falling meteorite. Is there anything in this idea? And has it any immediate relevance in astronautics? M. H. Briggs 39
THAT NEW PLANET 44
NOT REALLY IMPORTANT "Ursus" 44
SPACE AND THE UNIVERSE--THE BEGINNINGS From Sputnik, Pioneer and Lunik—To an amazing future Frank B. Pollard 45
NEWS DIARY Peter Bailey 48
AN ASTRONAUTICAL DISPLAY PANEL. A comment A. E. Slater 49
DANGER—MOON AT WORK! We know that the Moon has a profound influence upon the tides. Has it also any connection with phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes? Alice Coleman 51
KAZIMIERZ SIEMIENOWICZ—POLISH ROCKET PIONEER. One of the earliest of all pioneers in rocketry, K. Siemienowicz, is often forgotten. In this article we are reminded of the very important pioneer work which he carried out 300 years ago M. Subotowicz 53
QUESTION AND ANSWER 56
CORRESPONDENCE 56
THE EXTENT OF THE LUNAR ATMOSPHERE If the Moon retains a tenuous atmosphere, the results may be most important from an astronautical point of view. But does it? Geoffrey Turner 57
REVIEWS 58
MINOR PLANETS The Minor Planets, tiny worlds often only a mile or two in diameter, may be astronautical targets of the future. Colonel Stephenson tells us what is at present known about then G. E. B. Stephenson 59
OUT AND AROUND "Orbiter" 61
THE ROTATIONAL PERIOD AND TILT OF THE PLANET VENUS Very little is known about the planet Venus. In this article one of the British planetary observers gives a summary of the present information—or lack of it—concerning the length of its "day" F. C. Wykes 63
VOLUME 2 NO. 3 JULY 1959
PAGE ATLAS: CONCEPT FOR A MANNED SPACE-STATION 66
THE CHEMICAL ORIGINS OF LIFE. MICHAEL H. BRIGGS 69
WHAT IS ASTROBOTANY? G. A. TIKHOV 74
NEWS DIARY. PETER BAILEY 77
THE TIME HAS COME. H. E. ROSS 81
VISTAS IN RADIO ASTRONOMY. W. L. RAE 83
BOOKS 90
REVIEWS 92
CORRESPONDENCE 92
ASTRONAUTICAL GLEANINGS. "URSUS" 93
SATELLITE TRACKING CAMERA 94
RUSSIA'S MOON PROBE. MAURICE ALLWARD 95
VOLUME 2 NO. 4 OCTOBER 1959
PAGE LUNIK II HITS THE MOON 98
FIRST BRIDGE ACROSS SPACE 100
THE 10TH I.A.F. CONGRESS 102
GLOBAL ASPECTS OF THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE. HUGH L. DRYDEN 104
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL FEDERATION AND SOME PROPOSED OBJECTIVES. ANDREW G. HALEY 108
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE I.A.F. ANDREW G. HALEY 114
SOLAR SAIL: KEY TO INTERPLANETARY VOYAGING? BERNARD W. POWELL 116
ANIMALS IN SPACE. PATRICK MOORE 118
TERRESTRIAL AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE. MICHAEL H. BRIGGS 120
ASTRONAUTICAL OBJECTIVES--1 122
REVIEWS 124
CORRESPONDENCE 126
OUT AND AROUND. "ORBITER" 128
Volume 2 No. 5 JANUARY 1960
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON 30
SATELLITES AND RADIO ASTRONOMY. W. L. Rae 37
WAS EINSTEIN WORTH WHILE ? Ian S. Menzies 39
ASTRONAUTICS IN LONDON. A. E. Slater 41
THE N.A.S.A. SPACE SCIENCES-2 43
SPACEFLIGHT ON FILM. A. M. Hughes 46
NEWS DIARY. Peter Bailey 48
CORRESPONDENCE 50
ROCKET NOZZLES AND EXHAUST JETS. E. T. B. Smith 51
SOLAR DRIVE ? J. R. Cramp 55
REVIEWS 55
SATELLITE CLOSE-UP. C. A. Cross 58
ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE ? John W. Macvey 59
VOLUME 2 NO. 6 APRIL 1960
PAGE PLATFORM INTO SPACE. REX SCAMBARY 162
DISCUSSING THE MOON 167
HIGH-ENERGY ROCKET ENGINE 173
THE N.A.S.A. SPACE SCIENCES-3 174
SPACE RESEARCH IN THE U.S.S.R 176
ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS. N. H. ENGELHARD 181
SPACE-FERRY 182
THE NEW RUSSIAN SPACE-ROCKET 183
INFLATABLE SATELLITE 185
WIND-TUNNEL TESTING AT MACH 9.0 187
VANGUARD III 190
PROCESSING "SOLID" PROPELLENTS 190
THE OUTER RADIATION BELT 192
Volume 2 No. 7 JULY 1960
THE EXPLORATION OF OUTER SPACE. A. C. B. Lovell 194
SPACEFLIGHT AT THE PLANETARIUM 203
SKYLARK. Maurice Allward 204
EXPLORATION OF THE MOON :
1. THE LUNAR OBJECTIVE. Patrick Moore 209
2. THE ROBOT EXPLORERS. K. W. Gatland 212
3. MAN ON THE MOON. W. N. Neat 219
Volume 2 No 8 OCTOBER 1960
ATOMS AND SPACE. Hugh L. Dryden 226
SPUTNIK IV 230
NEW SOVIET SPACE-BOOSTER 231
THE SATURN PROJECT 232
MOON-LANDING PROBE 234
PHILATELIC SAFARI. Donald Malcolm 235
CORRESPONDENCE 236
NEW EVIDENCE OF MARTIAN LIFE. Michael H. Briggs 237
SHAPING THE SPACE-PROGRAMME 239
CO-OPERATION IN SPACE-RESEARCH. Arnold W. Frutkin 247
REVIEWS 252
ROCKETDYNE'S MAMMOTH F-I 253
QUESTION AND ANSWER 254
SATELLITE MODEL RE-ENTRY 254
THE N.A.S.A. SPACE-SCIENCES--4 255
ATOMIC GENERATOR FOR SPACECRAFT 260