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This week, leaving the earth to its own complex and confused devices, TIME'S cover takes you out of this world to the mysterious and challenging realms of outer space...
...moon would be a poor, dismal place to start a colony. It has no detectable atmosphere, certainly no water. Other planets are not much better. Mercury is fiercely hot on the side that it keeps toward the sun and fiercely cold on its sunless side. Outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) are cold worlds with hostile atmospheres of methane and ammonia...
Then the crewmen make another power maneuver. They turn the ship so that its rocket motors are pointing forward. A brief blast from them reduces the ship's speed by 1,070 m.p.h. and puts it into an elliptical course which swings down toward the atmosphere. In its outer fringes, 50 miles up, air resistance heats the rocket's skin and wings to a brightly glowing red (1,300° F.), but the crew, protected by insulation and liquid-cooled windows, do not feel the heat. The ship glides on, part meteor, part airplane. Gradually its energy...
...most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments to be cut up. At sunset he and his helpers were still stitching, as more and more of the faithful pledged themselves to go on the Crusade...
...very short time, the machine can step up a heartbeat slowed to a dangerous 25 counts per minute to its normal 90. The current running through the resistant thick outer skin causes only a mild twitching of the chest, but no pain or burning...