(When Ed McCauley was a very young officer—in fact a new-made first lieutenant, space travel was only for robots. Nobody'd ever ridden out of the atmosphere in a rocket, and nobody'd ever piloted a ship into orbital flight and landed it again; there wasn't a Space Platform, and the moon bases hadn't been built. There was constant danger from cosmic rays and flare particles, and nobody dreamed of trying to reach either Venus or Mars.By the time McCauley was a colonel, all those things had been done. But oddly enough, it didn't seem that the job was finished. The more that was done, the more remained to be done. And McCauley found that things never got any more settled down. There was Venus to be explored, right next door, and Mercury just beyond that. And Titan looked promising, and of course there were the asteroids, of which one or two urgently required examination. And even when there were settlements on Saturn and Uranus and Neptune, there were rumors of a planet beyond Pluto.... And after that, the stars.There'd never be any end to the journeyings of men into space.)
(When Ed McCauley was a very young officer—in fact a new-made first lieutenant, space travel was only for robots. Nobody'd ever ridden out of the atmosphere in a rocket, and nobody'd ever piloted a ship into orbital flight and landed it again; there wasn't a Space Platform, and the moon bases hadn't been built. There was constant danger from cosmic rays and flare particles, and nobody dreamed of trying to reach either Venus or Mars.
By the time McCauley was a colonel, all those things had been done. But oddly enough, it didn't seem that the job was finished. The more that was done, the more remained to be done. And McCauley found that things never got any more settled down. There was Venus to be explored, right next door, and Mercury just beyond that. And Titan looked promising, and of course there were the asteroids, of which one or two urgently required examination. And even when there were settlements on Saturn and Uranus and Neptune, there were rumors of a planet beyond Pluto.... And after that, the stars.
There'd never be any end to the journeyings of men into space.)
TODAY: SATELLITES
TOMORROW: THE OUTER GALAXIES
MEN INTO SPACE is the thrilling story of man's gradual conquest of outer space. Starting with the rockets of today, the story moves on to trace the development of the Space Platform and spaceships. It concludes with the first successful attempts to land on the Moon ... Mars ... and points beyond....
The entire story is seen through the eyes of young Ed McCauley, whose adventures in outer space will excite you with the sheer wonder of man's daring in the Space Age.
MEN INTO SPACE is based on the popular television series starring William Lundigan.