Dangerous Descent
Dangerous Descent
In
future, astronauts will be required to descend from a spaceship while it is
still in space and to return to it. The ability to do this will be necessary in
future flights to distant planets. Scientists are now trying to discover if this
is possible. The spaceship Astra which left the earth a short time ago will be
traveling three hundred miles into space. At a certain point, the Astra will
stop for a short time and an astronaut will attempt to leave the stationary
spaceship and then return to it. We shall not know whether the experiment has
been successful until we have received a radio message. The first message is
expected to arrive at 7 o’clock this evening. By that time, the Astra will have
been flying through space for seventeen hours and will have circled the earth a
great many times. When the first radio messages have been received, the results
of the trip will be announced immediately.
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