Science: Ad Astra

"Flash! Radio contact with the two United States Army officers on the Space Platform . . . has definitely been established . . . Come in, Space! . . . Tell the listeners here on earth, tell us, in your position far out there in free space . . . what's it like to be actually a, part of the solar system, with your own private orbit? . . . Do you feel the pull of gravity?" "No, sir, I don't . . . Now that you mention it, I don't feel the pull of dames,...

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