Cocktails in Space on “Your Trip to Mars,” 1952

Movies about the red major planet may be presently on the wane , but back in 1952 , Mars still bewitch the general populace . In August of that year , Major Alexander P. de Seversky imagined “ Your Trip to Mars ” for reader of Pageant magazine . “ The date , while still slightly hypothetical , is certainly well before the yr 2000 A.D. , ” opined Seversky . He fancy a “ cigar - shaped watercraft ” power by the “ direct poke ” of an nuclear - powered engine , trip at a cruise speed of 1,660,000 international nautical mile an hour that would whisk tripper to Mars in just 41 hour — and getting there was half the fun . Take a lavishness sail to outer distance after the jump .

It ’s all first - class seating room ! “ board the spaceship for Mars , we discover lounge and suites as luxuriously appointed as those on the 1952 Queen Elizabeth . ”

They ’ve grow a liquor permission ! “ Within two hours we note that we are traversing space at 150,000 m.p.h . , but the fact , unimaginable to the earthbound of 1952 , passes unnoticed by the bridge quartet in the turning point and the barman unconcernedly desegregate Martinis . ” Artificial gravitation preserve wag on the table and tipsy rider from floating free .

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In the future , teen are boring ! “ An ground wireless station provide a walk-in and the younger passenger trip the light fantastic . ” Seversky ’s imagination extend the gamut where outer space technology was concerned , but he could n’t visualise the nascency of rock and roll up just a few yr hence . ( Nor could he imagine the cutting off - rate , no ruffle air traveling of today ; his vision of spaceflight is based on the “ puff and luxuries of present - day airliners . ” )

Tickets on sales agreement soon ! “ Within the next half - century , perhaps within a generation , I firmly believe that the scenes I have just recount at the Universal Spaceport and on the journeying to Mars will be as commonplace as is the present overnight flight from New York to London . ”

Seversky was no baby in the woods when it come to aeronautics : he was an flyer , inventor , and author of the bestselling Victory Through Airpower ( 1942 ) . While his foretelling of a Universal Spaceport ( or , nigh to earth , atomic special K propulsion ) has n’t come true yet , “ Your Trip to Mars ” also refer a “ artificial satellite large enough to provide an astronomical lookout , laboratory facility and livelihood quarters for a stave ” service by wing “ shuttle rockets , ” and warned against a competitive space airstream .

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