The radiation burned tribesmen attack, throwing large rocks and stone axes. She screams upon hearing their oxygen mask-distorted voices. Soon after leaving, two of the explorers encounter a dark-haired woman who has lost her footing and rolled down a hill toward them she is blind, with thick, milky cataracts on both eyes. Eckstrom comments "From Atomic Age to Stone Age". These dangerous levels make it clear that there was once an atomic war on Mars in the distant past.įinding cave refuge, the crew notice in the distance the primitive human descendants of that civilization emerging from behind boulders and creeping toward them. Their Geiger counter registers dangerous radiation levels, keeping them well away. They come across physical evidence of a now dead advanced Martian civilization: a partially buried-in-the-sand, stylized, Art Deco (or Tiki culture) like metal face sculpture and in the distance Moderne architecture-like ruins. The next morning the crew, clad in aviation oxygen masks due to the low atmospheric pressure, begin exploring the desolate surface. The RX-M safely passes through the Martian atmosphere and lands. Karl Eckstrom is forced to "pause and observe respectfully while something infinitely greater assumes control". Reviving days later, they quickly discover that they have traveled some 50,000,000 miles the RX-M is now just 50,000 miles away from Mars. The increased acceleration lowers their cabin oxygen pressure, and the crew pass out. When the engines are reignited, the RX-M careens out of control on a rapid heading beyond the Moon. Recalculating fuel ratios and swapping around their multiple, different fuels finally corrects the problem. Halfway there, after surviving their jettisoned and runaway first stage and a meteoroid storm, their engines suddenly quit.
Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to the Moon.
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