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![]() How to survive the rigors of airless space?
Here's a quote from Doc Smith's Skylark Three:
Eando Binder didn't think much of them, as seen in this quote from Murder on the Asteroid (1933):
Here's another quote Using this phrase from Diamond Planetoid (1939) by Gordon Giles:
He stood still while Welton fitted the glassite helmet over his head and smeared instant-drying rubber cement over the zipper runs at the shoulders and neck. After clamping an oxygen bottle to Osgood's back and connecting the triple tubes, Welton came around to the front of the grotesque figure in micromesh rubberized silk...
Welton watched the bloated vacuum suit, inhabited by his friend, crawl slowly and carefully over the microbe world of rock. He looked like a gigantic black frog in the dull Saturn shine.
For purposes of comparison, check out the space-suit from The Emperor of the Stars by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat) and the air-tight suit from Garrett Serviss' 1898 story Edison's Conquest of Mars. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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