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| Volume 2 Number 1
| JANUARY 1959
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| EDITORIAL
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| 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
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| PIONEER : AN ACHIEVEMENT America's record-breaking Lunar Probe, which failed to reach the Moon only by the narrowest of margins
| Frank Pollard
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| THE ALPHONSUS OUTBREAK
| Patrick Moore
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| 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
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| Out and AROUND
| 'Orbiter'
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| Sky Diary
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| Space Medicine Symposium
| A. E. Slater
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| THE IAF AT Amsterdam A Personal account of the Ninth International Congress on Astronautics
| A. E. Slater
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| NEWS DIARY
| Peter Bally
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| OF ACADEMIC IMPORTANCE
| Alice Coleman
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| 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
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| REVIEWS
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| Volume 2 Number 2
| APRIL 1959
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| R.A. SMITH
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| 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
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| A PHILOSOPHY OF ASTRONAUTICS?
| S. W. Greenwood
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| 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
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| THAT NEW PLANET
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| NOT REALLY IMPORTANT
| "Ursus"
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| SPACE AND THE UNIVERSE--THE BEGINNINGS From Sputnik, Pioneer and Lunik—To an amazing future
| Frank B. Pollard
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| NEWS DIARY
| Peter Bailey
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| AN ASTRONAUTICAL DISPLAY PANEL. A comment
| A. E. Slater
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| 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
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| 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
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| QUESTION AND ANSWER
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| CORRESPONDENCE
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| 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
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| REVIEWS
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| 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
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| OUT AND AROUND
| "Orbiter"
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| 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
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| VOLUME 2 NO. 3
| JULY 1959
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| PAGE ATLAS: CONCEPT FOR A MANNED SPACE-STATION
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| THE CHEMICAL ORIGINS OF LIFE.
| MICHAEL H. BRIGGS
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| WHAT IS ASTROBOTANY?
| G. A. TIKHOV
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| NEWS DIARY.
| PETER BAILEY
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| THE TIME HAS COME.
| H. E. ROSS
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| VISTAS IN RADIO ASTRONOMY.
| W. L. RAE
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| BOOKS
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| REVIEWS
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| CORRESPONDENCE
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| ASTRONAUTICAL GLEANINGS.
| "URSUS"
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| SATELLITE TRACKING CAMERA
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| RUSSIA'S MOON PROBE.
| MAURICE ALLWARD
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| VOLUME 2 NO. 4
| OCTOBER 1959
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| PAGE LUNIK II HITS THE MOON
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| FIRST BRIDGE ACROSS SPACE
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| THE 10TH I.A.F. CONGRESS
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| GLOBAL ASPECTS OF THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE.
| HUGH L. DRYDEN
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| ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL FEDERATION AND SOME PROPOSED OBJECTIVES.
| ANDREW G. HALEY
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| THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE I.A.F.
| ANDREW G. HALEY
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| SOLAR SAIL: KEY TO INTERPLANETARY VOYAGING?
| BERNARD W. POWELL
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| ANIMALS IN SPACE.
| PATRICK MOORE
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| TERRESTRIAL AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE.
| MICHAEL H. BRIGGS
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| ASTRONAUTICAL OBJECTIVES--1
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| REVIEWS
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| CORRESPONDENCE
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| OUT AND AROUND. "ORBITER"
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| Volume 2 No. 5
| JANUARY 1960
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| THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON
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| SATELLITES AND RADIO ASTRONOMY.
| W. L. Rae
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| WAS EINSTEIN WORTH WHILE ?
| Ian S. Menzies
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| ASTRONAUTICS IN LONDON.
| A. E. Slater
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| THE N.A.S.A. SPACE SCIENCES-2
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| SPACEFLIGHT ON FILM.
| A. M. Hughes
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| NEWS DIARY.
| Peter Bailey
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| CORRESPONDENCE
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| ROCKET NOZZLES AND EXHAUST JETS.
| E. T. B. Smith
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| SOLAR DRIVE ?
| J. R. Cramp
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| REVIEWS
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| SATELLITE CLOSE-UP.
| C. A. Cross
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| ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE ?
| John W. Macvey
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| VOLUME 2 NO. 6
| APRIL 1960
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| PAGE PLATFORM INTO SPACE.
| REX SCAMBARY
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| DISCUSSING THE MOON
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| HIGH-ENERGY ROCKET ENGINE
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| THE N.A.S.A. SPACE SCIENCES-3
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| SPACE RESEARCH IN THE U.S.S.R
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| ACADEMY OF ASTRONAUTICS.
| N. H. ENGELHARD
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| SPACE-FERRY
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| THE NEW RUSSIAN SPACE-ROCKET
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| INFLATABLE SATELLITE
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| WIND-TUNNEL TESTING AT MACH 9.0
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| VANGUARD III
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| PROCESSING "SOLID" PROPELLENTS
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| THE OUTER RADIATION BELT
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| Volume 2 No. 7
| JULY 1960
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| THE EXPLORATION OF OUTER SPACE.
| A. C. B. Lovell
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| SPACEFLIGHT AT THE PLANETARIUM
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| SKYLARK.
| Maurice Allward
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| EXPLORATION OF THE MOON :
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| 1. THE LUNAR OBJECTIVE.
| Patrick Moore
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| 2. THE ROBOT EXPLORERS.
| K. W. Gatland
| 212
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| 3. MAN ON THE MOON.
| W. N. Neat
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| Volume 2 No 8
| OCTOBER 1960
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| ATOMS AND SPACE.
| Hugh L. Dryden
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| SPUTNIK IV
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| NEW SOVIET SPACE-BOOSTER
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| THE SATURN PROJECT
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| MOON-LANDING PROBE
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| PHILATELIC SAFARI.
| Donald Malcolm
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| CORRESPONDENCE
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| NEW EVIDENCE OF MARTIAN LIFE.
| Michael H. Briggs
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| SHAPING THE SPACE-PROGRAMME
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| CO-OPERATION IN SPACE-RESEARCH.
| Arnold W. Frutkin
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| REVIEWS
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| ROCKETDYNE'S MAMMOTH F-I
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| QUESTION AND ANSWER
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| SATELLITE MODEL RE-ENTRY
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| THE N.A.S.A. SPACE-SCIENCES--4
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| ATOMIC GENERATOR FOR SPACECRAFT
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