Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 42 — page 161: what you’re looking at

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FROM EARTH TO THE STARS! AUTHENTIC covers take you step by step from the first manned rocket to man’s final conquest of ‘interstellar space. Accurate, scientific, exciting ! This is the way it will happen ! THIS MONTH'S COVER shows an early stage in man’s first landing on a planet other than Earth—Mars. High up above Mars.the ‘dumbell’ ship shown on last month's cover circles in a close orbit; it is the mother ship of the sleek, air-to-space rockets we see touching down now. From these rockets. men have unloaded prefabricatad sections of the early, rather primitive base. The men wear space- suits because the Martian atmosphere is low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide. But once they have erected the plastic domes — which are elastic and distensible — and started up the pumps that will concentrate the oxygen of the Martian air, they will be - able to remove their suits and relax for a short while. Under the domes they will grow food hydroponically — that is, by soil-less culture — from seeds brought from Earth. They will set up an observatory and a survey station, and they will radio reports to Earth. On Earth more expeditions will be formed and sent to Mars, until the colonial base there boasts many men and many buildings. A city will grow from the small base pictured here—just as London, Toronto and New York grew. And the time will come when children born on Mars will ask ; “What is Earth like, Mummy?” But before then, ships will have moved on and out to other planets, other worlds, right to the end of the solar system. Bases will be set up along the way. Next month we shall see a completed base, on Triton, moon of .Neptune — point of departure for the stars ! - CEOnnicloookssCom