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...probes farther into airless space, he is met by an environment full of lethal radiation and extremes of temperature. For Los Angeles' Garrett Corp., the hostility of space is an industrial bonanza. Since it pressurized the cabins of World War II's high-flying B-29 bombers, Garrett has become the U.S.'s foremost specialist in keeping men alive in the yonder beyond their familiar surroundings. Garrett supplies oxygen gear for the Mercury astronauts, and is designing the breathing systems and environmental controls that will see U.S. Apollo crewmen to the moon...
Asteroids are familiar ground for many fictional characters, including Antoine de Saint-Exupery's charming "Little Prince," who lives on asteroid B-612 and cleans out its two active volcanoes with a plumber's helper. But real-life spacemen have largely ignored the small, airless planets in their race to reach the moon and Mars...
...will have its own rocket engines. By firing those engines briefly, the crew will be able to put their ship into an elliptical orbit that will dip to within ten miles of the moon's airless surface. As they swoop through perigee, the men in the bug will study the barren geography below, trying to recognize places that they have seen on maps and photographs. They will be able to correct their orbit as they climb back to apogee...
...number of figure paintings which, like The Accusation, had no literary source. In all his paintings, even when there is a touch of grim humor, the mood of despair persists. The composition of his landscapes is brilliant; but the landscape is so clogged with color that it becomes airless, a kind of prison. In the figure paintings, his creatures are chalky, emaciated scarecrows that stare out from cruel masklike faces. They accuse, torture, mock; they crouch on each others shoulders, ride each other's naked backs. To a large extent, the theme of Jan Müller...
...stool. But the strange rocket that the Navy unveiled last week at its China Lake (Calif.) Ordnance Test Station comes closest yet to solving one of the most difficult problems of space travel: how to make a soft landing on the moon or some even more distant airless planet...