EVEN before Sputnik, Soviet scientists were freely predicting successful space flights to the moon by the early 1960s. Since the launching of their satellite, the timetable has been confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7.
A fanciful version of how the first flight might be attempted without passengers is portrayed in a cartoon film being shown in...
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