- Year
- 1928
- By
- Soikin, P. P. (Publisher)
- Published
- Leningrad: P. P. Soikin.
- Edition
- Russian. Single issue, wraps.
- Ciancone
- N/A.
- Shelf
- L7
- Catalog
- Catalog E · Miscellanea
Single issue of this Leningrad popular-science biweekly, edited by an editorial board including Acad. N. A. Morozov and Acad. E. V. Tarle.
Its lead article (p.75) is Prof. N. A. Rynin’s own survey of interplanetary-flight theories, illustrated with eight diagrams: cannon shot, centrifugal launch, and radio-propelled ships, then in more technical detail the rocket designs of Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, Oberth, Hohmann, and Zander, several also represented elsewhere in this collection. Rynin points readers to his own multi-volume encyclopedia of the same title for fuller detail, and closes by proposing an international “Institute of Interplanetary Communications.”
The same issue carries a translated article by American astronomer Donald H. Menzel on the possibility of life on Mars, and an advertisement for the relevant volume of Rynin’s own book series, priced at 1 ruble 70 kopecks.
