European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ujj october 1958 the stars and stripes i americans beat the British scientists say a Pioneer launching called amazing9 i epic journey Watt upon reentering earths atmosphere thousands saw secret launching Cape Apt tip to the last the kept a tight lipped on unofficial Advance re that the Moon shot would be attempted i Dawn or viral thousand persons i the beaches for Miles of the missile Center to the blazing Takeoff of mans k ambitious attempt to reach t into the came before Midnight to claims on parking places which they had unobstructed of 88foot in the Glare of Hure search the rocket was clearly visible  watchers eight to 1 of i nearly three be aerie the appointed Blastoff a Stream of aulos hogged the j Road linking Cocoa Beach of pc canaveral with the main in of License Oaks they from All parts or dotted the i wars through i bight Many sup in county com Sid column my for he  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because the Moon has info Mutton to a solid foundation already obtained from Earth bound for one if the satellite noes into an orbit around the no atmosphere none to i or even makes a pass behind of so far As is now Why if it is such a for bid dec and desolate have Sciont ssh gone to such trouble to and the like Hiither try to Frei a satellite at least within the Vicinity of the Moon they have done to if i s unseen Side May be lore beat up from meteors it to Attr if the a peek at of the Moon its awfully up of leading the hide of Moon who never is outer swarms with count ifs billions of Many of great fit unrounded cell Uriel Ilij five the Earth and the crude pictures might be obtained of the hidden Side which never can be seen from the Here Are further reasons Why americans want to make this first pioneering exploration of the Moon from an unmanned satellite even though the Moon itself is a Deso late world perhaps covered with Grey Fried and Frozen in tem per blurts ran tiny from 215 degrees i Tilove to 240 degrees the Moon represents h potential stepping Stone to the Distant once Mun masters the Art of Landing on Bane for Telem Ojah Kven before further exploration from main intense bomlwrd1 is astronomers could set life should be even More poked i meteors hurtling than the lunar face in rough increasingly t through were by official monthly pub of the air Force of atmosphere Are fuated h Fri lion to so Thui of them Are i burned up during their transit for the additional n on to Var few Reath up of the dark i Why shoot it Moon Dye Obrec drives listed Vasu Nuton in us i a feb to Moon thu Tami he nut Lon in moan mod the Bettwy and the it Tler Effort of whip Imd the to which Norh there Only m of Daing h into Oriolt around in the form of meteorites or me Tantic no atmosphere with the Moon it is a different the Moon has Little or no atmosphere to protect meteor ites strike its visible surface in their original mans and maximum estimated As High is Many of the major lunar have diameters of More i him fijo dwarfing the largest known meteorite craters j on the end los the visible face of the does not receive the maximum the Earth is in the Way of some of this celestial storm of f lying stones and met and thus serves As a shield which prevents the realer jul from getting to the but heavenly body to there is no protect the other Side of the Moon from this meteoritic up telescopes on the these would command vastly belter of the outer readies of space Are possible now from the atmosphere dimmed the Moon could serve As a relay station for worldwide television broadcasts and As an outpost without peer for forecasting the worlds it is possible that the desolate Moon holds great treasures of diamonds and other precious gems and Here Are some of the things science now knows Amu the Moon based on constant study of it since Galileo first trained a primitive Spyglass on in in the year 1610 the Moon moves in an egg shaped orbit around the this brings it to about Miles from the Earth at its nearest Point of Perigee und about Miles away at its farthest distance the diameter of the Moon is Only on fourth i lie diameter of the and its circumference is compared to the Earth the Moon a the Earth is eight times heavier and its surface area is 14 times of the because of the difference in mass and hence in gravitational a spice explorer who weighed 175 pounds on Earth would weigh Only pounds on the and even the worst Duffer could easily drive a Olf Ball a mile on the like the the Moon shines by Light reflected from the but the Moon reflects Only 10 per cent of the Light it receives from the absorbing the rest As this accounts for the High up to 215 in full the Earth in contrast reflects 40 times More sunlight than does the therefore As from the the Earth would not Only be much bigger than the Moon to but 40 times orbits the Moon revolves around the Earth once every 28 it also rotates on its own Axis Iri a similar that is Why the Moon always presents the same surface to the and that Iii Why one of the objectives of the current Moon shot is to take crude Pic Tures of the Side of the Moon we never the Muin surface features of the Moon Are its giant Mountain its Volcano like and its dry called or seas in latin be cause the ancients thought the Moon had water on held beginning of a new Era London a launching of the american Moon rocket was hailed As an amazing feat bar chairman of Britain International Geo physical year artificial satellite after hearing that All three of the launching were Massey confessed he originally had Strong doubts that the rocket would Ever get i certainly thought the Odds were against the but they have beaten the he they have done extraordinarily particularly in getting it off dead on Kenneth Vic chairman of the British interplanetary said the present epic journey of the Pioneer Marks the beginning of a new age of enlightenment for underlying All mans achieve for Good or a his insatiable desire to probe the unit is thin desire to discover what lies beyond the horizon that urged our ancestors across hostile seas to discover new and open up systems of commune this lunar probe has no other purpose than to enlarge our knowl Edge of the Gatland the americans must he complimented in pressing Forward with a scientific venture of this kind at a time when world Atten Tion is being Given to the develop ment of rockets As weapons for mans and other space vehicles which will will be robot pathfinders to the and will enable the exploration of space to proceed much sooner than would be otherwise More cheap and without the slightest danger to human the whole thing is said head of the a flip astronomy Section of Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge univer it is a magnificent achievement and everybody is full of Admira rockets path explained Washington May wonder Why a Moon rocket that hits Mph would need 2v4 Days instead of 10 hours to travel Miles to the Vicinity of the the answer is that Mph is the rockets Peak not a sustained after hitting the the Speed drops off even by the time the rocket reaches the Moons gravitational influence it Wilt be moving so fast it might Streak right so it carries a breaking rocket in its nose which will fire about Miles from Earth to permit the Moons put to take Cone sterilized Washington up Load of the Moon rocket sterilized before launching to avoid any possible contamination of the technicians sterilized the 35inch Long Pioneer by bathing it with chemicals and ultraviolet scientists that con lamination of the Moon by rockets could prevent Man from solving some of the universes deepest including the secret of lifes the scientists said the Basic question concerning the origin o life is How Complex Prehle mole Cules came to they said the process May now be going on on the Moon and by planets such As Venus and of they said introduction Jpn molecules from Earth could seriously affect the process and prevent scientists from learning whether the molecules came front Earth or the Moon and planets the rocket shoot was aimed at putting Pioneer in the Vicinity of the the pay Load was sterilized on the Chance that it might hit the Moon by j