Task to Luna

Task to LunaIt wasn't really so strange a coincidence. Space navigation is governed by mathematics and logic,...
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Author: Coppel, Alfred,1921-2004
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Language: English
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Task to Luna

Task to Luna

€6,18

Task to Luna

€6,18
Author: Coppel, Alfred,1921-2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

Task to Luna

It wasn't really so strange a coincidence. Space navigation is governed by mathematics and logic, not politics. The fact that man-carrying spaceships happened to be developed concurrently on two sides of an iron curtain meant little to the Universe. It happened, that's all. And there is a proper time to launch such missiles. When that time came, they were launched. In a manner of speaking it was a race. A race wherein the prizes were such things as: "gravity gauge" and "surveillance point" and "impregnable launching sites." The contestants were earnest, capable men; each certain that the Moon must not fall into the hands of the opponent. It made a stirring and patriotic picture, vivid with nationalistic fervor. It was thrilling with its taste of high adventure and self-sacrifice. For each rocket pilot it was a personal crusade against the thing he had been raised to regard as the enemy.... Harsh was the moon. There was black and there was white. Great jagged cliffs and razor-backed mountains slashed the pocked surface of the crater floor, humping themselves at the huge unwinking stars. The sun was a stark disc of fire, incredibly white, hung in the black sky. The shadows were bottomless pools. Within them there was nothing. In the sunlight, the pumice soil glared white. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 63949
Author: Coppel, Alfred
Release Date: Dec 3, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Mayan, Earl, 1916-2009

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