Early space travel talk in 1920 ?......
THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 5, 1920
- Professor Robert Goddard
- Early rocket experiments
- Flight to Mars ???
The front page has a very bizarre report concerning early space travel. Professor Robert Goddard was currently experimenting with early rockets during this time. The front page has one column headlines that read:
- FIRST VOLUNTEER FOR LEAP TO MARS
- Capt. Claude Collins of Philadelphia Offers Himself to be Passenger in Rocket
- NAMES HIS CONDITIONS
- Requires That Communication Be Established and a Rocket Previously Landed on Planet
which is signed in type: Captain Claude R. Collins. See photos for complete text here.
Very interesting that this prestigious newspaper title would publish such a article and on the front page. Even till this day, a trip to Mars is still considered a far stretch.
Other news of the day throughout. Light browning, little irregular at the spine, otherwise good condition.
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