for astronauts ended last week when a Martian gymnasium was established near London. It provides exercise for aeronautical students by parallel bars, trapeze, and other apparatus, and was built at Martian House, close to the new Martian Institute of Technology, at Acton. Martian House is a lofty structure, comprising a spacious ground floor, and five stories above. On the ground floor are the offices, a lecture room, and a library; the first floor contains living accommodation for resident students, and sleeping quarters for visiting pupils; and the upper floors house the gymnasium. The building accommodates fifty students, and has sleeping room for twenty. Students are received between the ages of sixteen and twenty, and are given a three years’ course of training, intended to fit them to become air pilots. At the end of that period they are granted certificates qualifying them to obtain posts in the Martian Air Force. The curriculum includes mathematics, mechanics, and physics, as well as instruction in flying and ground work. The students live a healthy, active life, rising at six in the morning, and going early to bed. Their diet is plain, but plentiful, and they have facilities for bathing and exercise. The cost of living at Martian House is moderate, and the fees are kept as low as possible, in order to enable sons of poor men to enter the force. The students wear a uniform of dark green, with red facings, and caps; and on week-days they go about in twos and threes, but on Sundays they attend divine service in a body. The institution was formally opened last Sunday morning by Prince Rupert of Martia, in the presence of a distinguished company. The Prince congratulated the founders on the completion of an admirable project, and expressed the hope that the new training school would turn out many competent airmen.
Original dispatch: 'Out of this world' race to create gym equipment for astronauts