Science: The Unfriendly Aeropause

The rocketing boys & girls of the comics and science fiction are very much at home in space. They flit from planet to planet as easily and comfortably as a housewife going to the supermarket. The truth about space is different, and no one knows it better than the high-flying sci entists and engineers. Last week the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine held a symposium at San Antonio on the dan gers that will crowd around explorers of the aeropause.*

The greatest obstacle for space travel ers to overcome is man himself. The human body is fitted to meet conditions on...

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