Science: Space, Here We Come

The British Interplanetary Society is a serious body, dominated not by comicstrip artists and space-opera fictioneers, but by eminent scientists. Last week in London it was host to the Second International Congress on Astronautics, attended by 63 scientist delegates from societies in ten countries. For the delegates, space travel is a practical goal, and not too far in the future. Said Chairman Arthur C. Clarke of the society: "Space flight is likely to be the next major technical achievement of our species."

Man-Made Moon. The official subject of the congress was the "earth-satellite...