Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 44 — page 161: what you’re looking at

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_-FROM EARTH TO THESTARS! - ~% - > Wiis at. ‘ AUTHENTIC covers take you step by step from the first manned: rocket to man’s final conquest of interstellar space. Accurate, scientific, exciting ! This is the way it will happen ! THIS MONTH'S: COVER shows the skeleton of agigantic ship that will cover the enormous distances between the solar system and the stars. At last we are on the threshold of real space! And a totally new chapter in human endeavour opens before us, fraught with difficulty, full of danger, yet pregnant with unlimited possibilities. The ship shown here is something entirely new in rocket design. Every part of it has been figured to one purpose—a journey to the stars. It is large enough to accommodate several generations in high comfort—this is because the people who begin the voyage wil! be long dead-by the time the ship reaches another stellar system; their children too may be dead, and perhaps only their grandchildren or.great grandchildren will actually disembark fromthe ship. Because ofall this, the starship has to be aminiature world, with all the things that keep people alive and happy for uries. Every aspect of ordinary life will somehoygbe incorporated into the ship. Most important of all will be records and descriptions of Earth, for the distant generations will be born on the ship and will have no first-hand ~ knowledge of the planet which spawned their ancestors. They will not be Earthmen; they will be spacemen, in the truest, widest sense. The starship will contain living quarters, hospitals, shops, cinemas, swimming pools, libraries, recreation rooms, workshops, kitchens, farms —and all these in addition to the usual technical equipment, such as radio, navigation, engine room. What the ship would cost is something we cannot even think about today. All we can decide is that it would have to be a completely ~ \international venture; it would thave to be a project sponsored for and ~ on behalf of the whole world, for humanity. For this ship is the one that will “begin the spread of mankind from his home system into all the far reaches ~*~ of space. And this is the only way that mankind can survive, for one day the Sun will not support life on Earth or any other solar planet. We have to reach the stars. So much for the general picture. How the ship works and other technical details we will tell you next month. comiclhooks.CGonn