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"The Rocket of 1955" is a 750-word short story by C. M. Kornbluth, about efforts to build a fake rocketship. The story was first published in the April, 1941 issue of Escape.

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Plot

A man named Fein blackmails the narrator of the story and a European scientist into building a fake rocket to Mars. They take millions in donations, build the rocket (which quickly blows up), but are then found out when the scientist confesses everything.

Additional Notes

This story has been reprinted in, among other places, Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941).

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