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Rocket, v. 1, issue 1, March 1940
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8 THE ROCKETORS! By "4SJ" Ackerman... Ryt off the bat I bliev I betr'd say "rocketor" is no arbitrary respelling of myn of the term "rocketeer" with which we have become familiar thru our perusal of science fiction. It seems while our Hamiltons & Wmsons with their Capt. Futures & Legionaires have been popularizing "rocketeer" in fiction, those of the sober side of the science of space-flite have devised their own description, "rocketor". The Rocketors, represented in USA by the American Rocket Socty, for a decade now have publisth a journal devoted to recording the developments in man's most audacious dream, the Conquest of Space. This organ appears today as a small-size, well-printed, pictorial publication of 16 slick-paper pgs, securable thru support of the Socty as an Associate Member at $3 a yr. I am such an AM of te ARS, & while it is not the purpose of this article to propagandize for this organization, there can be no dout but what it is a standout example of an effort to concretize the desire of every stfan--a rocket successfully launcht to our satellite, Luna, firstep in the exploration of the solar system & etherships spanning the spaceways to the stars!--&, as such, is a worthy enterprise to subsidize... The purpose of this article is to acquaint the uninformed fan with the contributions by science fiction authors to be found in "Astronautics": GEPendray, who, writing as "Gawain Edwards" authord the bk "Earth-Tube", & popular "Jupiter" storys in Gernsback Wonder, has had articles with such titles as "History of the First AIS Rocket", Recent Worldwide Advances in Rocketry, Rocketry's #1 Man (Dr Goddard), Pictorial Hi-Lites of Rocketry, & Conquest of Space by Rocket". David Lasser, one-time Managing Editor of WS, wrote of "The Rocket & the Next War", was Editor of the Bulletin in '32. Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt, who colaborated on "Expedition to Pluto" in PLANET #1, told, between them, of "Getting Away from the Earth, Mechanics of Rocket FLite, External Aids to Rocket Flite, & Landing the Spaceship"... No article about rocketry woud be complete, ofcorse, without mention of its inter-nat'l authority Willy Ley, author of innumerable rocket articles in the sff mags' science sections, & several rocketryarns under the seudonym "Robt Willey". (Herr Ley's name, incidently, is pronounced Vee'lee Lay.) "The Story of European Rocketry, On Rockets & Their History, & Chronological History of the Rocket" are a few of his fact-articles in the ARS periodical. Even Nat Schachner has apeard in "Astronautics"; "Can Man Exist on Other Planets"! While CPMason (Epaminondas Thucydides Snooks, Dr. of Terrestrial Gravitation) told of "Principles of Interplanetary Navigation", Peter van Dresser ("Plum Duff" & other space-storys in American Boy) wrote of "'Cosmecology' & the Rocket, Previewing the Aerological Rocket" etc, & Lemkin ("The Eclipse Special" etc): "Rocket Fuels & Their Possibilitys". It was not difficult for Robt Heinlein to write "Requiem" because he "was" the "hero"; & altho he wil lose a $10 bet made many yrs ago if we don't have a moon-trip this yr, he still fully believes in its eventual accomplishment. & so do I.
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8 THE ROCKETORS! By "4SJ" Ackerman... Ryt off the bat I bliev I betr'd say "rocketor" is no arbitrary respelling of myn of the term "rocketeer" with which we have become familiar thru our perusal of science fiction. It seems while our Hamiltons & Wmsons with their Capt. Futures & Legionaires have been popularizing "rocketeer" in fiction, those of the sober side of the science of space-flite have devised their own description, "rocketor". The Rocketors, represented in USA by the American Rocket Socty, for a decade now have publisth a journal devoted to recording the developments in man's most audacious dream, the Conquest of Space. This organ appears today as a small-size, well-printed, pictorial publication of 16 slick-paper pgs, securable thru support of the Socty as an Associate Member at $3 a yr. I am such an AM of te ARS, & while it is not the purpose of this article to propagandize for this organization, there can be no dout but what it is a standout example of an effort to concretize the desire of every stfan--a rocket successfully launcht to our satellite, Luna, firstep in the exploration of the solar system & etherships spanning the spaceways to the stars!--&, as such, is a worthy enterprise to subsidize... The purpose of this article is to acquaint the uninformed fan with the contributions by science fiction authors to be found in "Astronautics": GEPendray, who, writing as "Gawain Edwards" authord the bk "Earth-Tube", & popular "Jupiter" storys in Gernsback Wonder, has had articles with such titles as "History of the First AIS Rocket", Recent Worldwide Advances in Rocketry, Rocketry's #1 Man (Dr Goddard), Pictorial Hi-Lites of Rocketry, & Conquest of Space by Rocket". David Lasser, one-time Managing Editor of WS, wrote of "The Rocket & the Next War", was Editor of the Bulletin in '32. Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt, who colaborated on "Expedition to Pluto" in PLANET #1, told, between them, of "Getting Away from the Earth, Mechanics of Rocket FLite, External Aids to Rocket Flite, & Landing the Spaceship"... No article about rocketry woud be complete, ofcorse, without mention of its inter-nat'l authority Willy Ley, author of innumerable rocket articles in the sff mags' science sections, & several rocketryarns under the seudonym "Robt Willey". (Herr Ley's name, incidently, is pronounced Vee'lee Lay.) "The Story of European Rocketry, On Rockets & Their History, & Chronological History of the Rocket" are a few of his fact-articles in the ARS periodical. Even Nat Schachner has apeard in "Astronautics"; "Can Man Exist on Other Planets"! While CPMason (Epaminondas Thucydides Snooks, Dr. of Terrestrial Gravitation) told of "Principles of Interplanetary Navigation", Peter van Dresser ("Plum Duff" & other space-storys in American Boy) wrote of "'Cosmecology' & the Rocket, Previewing the Aerological Rocket" etc, & Lemkin ("The Eclipse Special" etc): "Rocket Fuels & Their Possibilitys". It was not difficult for Robt Heinlein to write "Requiem" because he "was" the "hero"; & altho he wil lose a $10 bet made many yrs ago if we don't have a moon-trip this yr, he still fully believes in its eventual accomplishment. & so do I.
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