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WHAT AWAITS MAN ON THE PLANETS?

-OW far will man

H

reach into врасе during our lifetime? Or in the lifetime of our children?

we

So far in this series have swung our gaze from the beginning to the distant end of space travel.

What comes between? Will the space-station even- tually become a stepping-

off point for the Moon and the nearer planets?

And when men actually reach the Moon or Mars what will they find there? Anything more than a bar- waste? Will they perhaps And an alien form of life?

ren

moon

Let us suppose that the

of the second year has already arrived, that children in the streets are already pointing up at the bright dise of carrying satellite moving sedately twice a day across our skies. What will have happened to make this pos- sible?

man-

24

CONTENTED? THERE will have been

huge project to ferry

of 11 components

space. station beyond the atmo- sphere and

to

assum-

ble them

a thousund miles above the earth's surface.

There will have

The glow of earth caste shadows over plath on the Moon A rocket crew untends its equipment, among it a hose-like inflatable radio serial that will carry their messages. In the background the

rocket's sister ship blasts off its mators to ease down to land. And over the funar landscape broods the giant peak of Mount Piton. Jaiting up 18.000 feel. Drawing by R A Smith.

Until recently, as a reaction from the moon-mén and moon- catale thought up by H. G. Wells, there was a fashion for shaking our heads sadly, at the Moon as a dead, dead world- a world without water and without life, Now there is, talk once more of frozen water In

dark caves. One or two astronomers, cocking their lenses at familiar craters have also noticed that certain Moon mountains sometimes altogether. This they to a screen of vapour, breathed out by active volcanos.

vanish ascribe

perhaps

to answer.

There will be other puzzles

for the spaco-men

They will be able to

explain

the pecullar white lines

which

of the Moon's craters.

radiate Uke spokes from Bomo

for

a

out These

lines fan miles, running unerringly across mountains and ravines as if ginnt had stroked them on

with the surface

a brushi, of celestial white-wash.

FLASHES

HE space-men may also tell us THE

something about the myster- ious lights which a few astrono- mere have seen flashing for a brief moment from the Moon'a high peaks.

will

But their keenest gaze be kept for something affecting their own hopes. They will be Jonding searching for a future

ground on the Moon, They may be disappointed.

The whole

surface may be notched ravines, on-as some

THERE'S A'RAILWAY'

been a grim decade of ex- periment with disasters far more Irightful than the R101 crash or the Comet ex- plosions blackening the headlines every few months.

or

One misjudged calculation in pressure-sealing in defence against meteors may even have wrecked the first station and killed its entire crow.

In that event, for a few Lerrible months, we will have seen, no longer a space station, but a fragile, tatter- ed tomb gliding above us in its daily orbit.

ON THE MOON

berry Harbour of the new age stretching out into the high seas of space.

From this pier the ocean- going liners of space will one day be launched.

Continuing JOURNEY TO THE STARS by ROBERT PITMAN

A two-

with

believe

maybe

un-

it spread

evenly with of drifts volcanic ash

What if the Moon's surfaco

ཝ་

the thwarts the

trav.cleral Where will they switch their attention next?

The planets are Infinitely they closer than the stars and shed no heat or light of their uwh For enterprising space- Then they seem the obvious next step beyond the Moon.

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But a closer look at some of them is markedly discouraging. Take Mercury, which is little At a they are going to explore, bigger than the Moon. Even the early Victorians, mere 36,000,000 miles it is only third of the earth's distance who knew nothing about from the sun. Its sunlit Laco vast tracts of Africa, were is more than warm. Lead would on nodding terms with most boli there.

Space artists, undeterred, have depicted men in neat At first these craft will be station orbit will already be against a space ship travel- of the Moon

They knew that its torrid asbestos suits picking their way the parched unmanned: They will be, travelling at about 16,000 ling at seven miles a second.

crust.

But the astronauts arb sent swinging out from the miles an hour.

Such wrecked hulks will days and freezing nights delicately across space-station on loug ellipt minute blast from powerful

Earth-sized Venus, which cal orbits. Under radio con rockets will send the craft drift on endlessly into the sharply divided by a razor not enthusiastic.

black void carrying their edge of shadow each last-

half-way bo- trol they will hover some 50 gliding through unresisting once human cargo with them ed 14 days by earth time, circles roughly

They knew that it had long tween Mercury and ourselves, is the Eldorado of through space and time,

romantics. With lost its atmosphere; that by contrast

space miles above the Moon's sur space.

good In the Elizabethan Age

the air to carry reason. face, and their camerus and

beds of

the Yet there is a growing without the deep

who sound waves, it was a place instruments will be cease- Then the

northern seas were scatter. number of scientists lessly at work, carth's gravity will gradual- ly pull them back and they with hulka. So it will be believe that one day you of perpetual quiet, where

VENUS is wrapped in thick, will be manoeuvred into the again in the coming age even or your children will buy even a volcano would

evening paper and see plode in polite silence. when human crews take an

eternal cloud, if nothing can over from the robot pilots. smirking out at you from

knew about be said about its surface, nothing Will the pioneers be con- orbit of the space-station

They also the frout page the happy tent? By no nieans. For once again.

So the fictioneers have welt- open space faces of the first men to take the Moon's jagged, snow. equally can be denied. them the satellite will be

of ten up the society life of noble, probably keep to well- a scouting trip round the less mountains many

or they have something more than the

defined paths instead of Moon. These explorers will them higher than Everest green Venusians world's chief observatory or

round

Venusians who paddle, gloomily trip will beating like surf as they do be different from the Eliza--and about the pock-marks gone, slumming with duck food milltary post. For them it THE

fringe of earth's bethan discoverers in one of its wall-edged craters — through swamps. take perhaps three days on the will chiefly be a pier, a Mul-

-covering half a million atmosphere. But if the en- special sense. miles altogether. Yet it will gineers make a slip at their not need an impossible lond drawing-boards

Yet now-let us say-the confident predictions have at last come true. The crew of a successful satellite has Int last been Becurely

ensconced above the earth.

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Meteors in

#

EX-

some a mere stone's throw across, some half the width Bay no. chance Before they set out they of Scotland.

know a lot of rocket fuel. Anything meteor no bigger than a pin will already

like an iceberg about the old guunt sphere assembled in the space- may act

WEDDING CAKES' RUINED THEM

BLACK SKY

BAFFLED

.on

RUINED THEM TODAY, in the high boon of the clouds, and others have talk-

By Vladimir Gureyev

and

4 r

1"

The baffled scientists cannot They cannot even say what the clouds which swaddle Venus are made of. Huge dust atorms, oll vapour. carbon dioxide all have been ProTM

scien posed. Life? Reputable tists have claimed that simple- celled bacterio may batten

fiction, the cartoon strip scuttle over the dark

ed of creatures which may surface, artists can turn- out postcard feeding on them as they fall views of the Bioon's weird land- .But · Mars—50,000,000 miles scape more easily than

sun tilan a further from the memory sketch of their own earth-is the only planet where science and Action begin to back gardens.

meet. In the 1870's an Italian They can give you a night- astronomer announced a simple marc picture of the Moon's network of thin dark, lines stretched between the white. wall — in whimsical treat

polar cape of Mars. He called moments astronomers calli it them canali, meaning "chan- "the raliway"—a vast, vertical nels." But the non-Italian world cliff three times higher than instantly saw visions of irriga- tion canals, of prelty Grand Benchy Hoad which looms out Union viewe, complete with lock of the plain in a sharp, straight gates and Martian horses ft. for

Constable to paint. gilt ceilings and acres of rubber line for over 60 milles.

Will men be able to land on plants.

They can paint you the Moon's Mara? Not until they, overcome Builders are now ordered to go sky, which is black even In the technical diffoultice of in for men standardised build- glaring, sunlight and they can plunging through the friction of

were

The Hotel Leningrad- skaya-where 354 rooms built for the cost of 1,000. architecture an

Funds were swallowed up by

vast corridors, luxury lounges,

• Railway stations built FONDNESS. for or flat is only eight square metres

Teet)-havo been like paluces, with disregard for frittered away in tancy facades, amenities and the comfort of the nate "wedding cake" (square ballding toppled Russia's top useless towers,, spires, cupolas, traveller.

domes

classical architect, Alexander Vlasov, onion

It has also toppled 26 columus.” other Soviet builders. They These, say "the papers, have are being blamed for a given, Russian major housing crisis in the afchale look.: Soviet Union

"This manta for civic grandeur, has raised the cost of living The burge" is being led by spice two or three times," Premier Buiganin and Communist

They quote the cases of... Party Secretary Krushchev.

ing and planned large-scale show how the great shining ball its atmosphere. But even withe of earth hovers among the stars out landing even perhaps. from: A coal mine administra- uniform projects. This, in

a harally worded ion building in Tiblis, Georgia. Above all, they were warned with a bluish radiance scores of the space-station's own observa

times brighter than the Moon tory, they may learn its socrek, directive splished neroes their It was surmounited by an oma- to lay off the frills and con-

Itself In our night sky, front

(COTPRIGHT) pages, is what Investio mental tower costing 3,000,000 centrate on the function. and Pravda tell the men build roubles (£208,500 at the present

The directive advises them to ing the new Russia...

rate of exchange),.

emulate the. "progressive

Milkms of

roubles that. And the building was faced developments in building in the subuld have gone to provide with marble. Cost of that: flats for workers--and a worker's 8,000,000 roubles (£710,200).

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

• I'M POSTING PHOTOS OF THESÈ- DUMMIES. THE FORCE WILL SEARCH EVERY STORE IN TOWN. IF WE FIND "ONE LIKE THEM. ECANETRACE.

THE MANU

NOW THEY'VE GOT US LOOKING FOR DUMMIES!

(COPYRIGHT)

But there' remain far-reaching Moon which our explorers will solve mysteries. about, the even if they only reconnoître its surface from 50 miles above.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

WHATIL THEY

THINK OF NEXT

THIS 15 THE TENTH STORE I'VE BEEN TO NO LUCK SO FAR Hey, THAT ONE LOOKS LIKE THIS PHOTO-/

HOW

DARE

·YOU?·

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