Galaxy Magazine (October 1956) by Galaxy

Author:Galaxy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 1956-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

booster behind in the launching rack and climbed peacefully to nearly 20 miles.

Next section in the rocket is the tank for the oxidizer. Big rockets like Viking and V-2 use

oxygen, available since 1902. Smaller rockets like the Aerobee use nitric acid, available for centuries.

The next tank is the fuel tank. Again the big rockets use 75 per cent ethyl alcohol, which Italian monks started distilling about 1200. Or you may prefer hydrazine, which sounds enormously "modern" but was made for the first time in 1887. The tanks themselves are, of course, sheet metal and though nitric acid is hard on metals, it would have been no real problem in 1906 to devise a tank which could have held nitric acid for an hour or so.

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