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| | ASTRONAUTICS IN THE U. S. S. R. |
 | | As a result of many years of work by Soviet scientists and engineers to the present time, rockets and all the necessary equipment and apparatus have been created by means of which the problem of an artificial Earth satellite for scientific research purposes can be solved. |
 | | The telescopes used by members of Russian Moonwatch teams, as shown in photographs in Pravda and other Russian newspapers, after the launching of Sputnik I, are suspiciously similar in outward appearance to the design described in the Bulletin for Visual Observers of Satellites. |
 | | For example, in all article entitled "Flight to the Moon," published in Pionerskaya Pravda on October 2, 1951, M. Tikhonravov, corresponding member of the Academy of Artillery Sciences, stated that according to engineering calculations two men could fly around the Moon and back to Earth in a rocket ship weighing approximately 1,000 tons. |
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