Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 43 — 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 man’s last outpost in the solar system — the base on Triton, tiny moon of Neptune only 3,000 miles in diameter. Here we are 220,000 miles from Neptune itself and 2,793.5 million miles from the Sun, which is a mere point in the almost black sky. One by one, on each of Sol’s small planets and on moons of the giant planets, bases have been set up, colonists have journeyed out to them and tiny islands of humanity have spread across interplanetary space. In a sense, itis the end of a chapter. But the stars are laid out like spangles on the nightgown of Empress space! They beckon, and man is tempted. From Titan he will build ships that will undertake immensely long, highly dangerous journeys across millions of light years — thtee and a half light years to the nearest star ! The starship will be constructed in space above Triton. It will never land—unless it crashes. Small space-to-planet ships will be carried on it for the first landing on an alien world. But that is a long time off, years perhaps. Next month we will show an early stage in the construction of the starship. comicbooks.com