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diff --git a/32484.txt b/32484.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d17b79e --- /dev/null +++ b/32484.txt @@ -0,0 +1,722 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Moon Glow, by G. L. Vandenburg + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Moon Glow + +Author: G. L. Vandenburg + +Release Date: May 22, 2010 [EBook #32484] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOON GLOW *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + MOON GLOW + + By G. L. VANDENBURG + +[Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories November +1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + + _That first trip to the moon has been the subject of many stories. + Mr. Vandenburg has come up with as novel a twist as we've ever read._ + + _And it could happen._ + + +The Ajax XX was the first American space craft to make a successful +landing on the moon. She had orbited the Earth's natural satellite for a +day and a half before making history. The reason for orbiting was +important. The Russians had been boasting for a number of years that +they would be first. Captain Junius Robb, U.S.A.F., had orders to +investigate before and after landing. + +The moon's dark side was explored, due to the unknown hazards involved, +during the orbiting process. More thorough investigation was possible on +the moon's familiar side. The results seemed to be incontrovertible. +Captain Junius Robb and his crew of four were the first humans to tread +the ashes of the long dead heavenly body. The Russians, for all their +boasts, had never come near the place. + +The Ajax XX stood tall and gaunt and mighty, framed against the +forbidding blackness of space. Captain Robb had maneuvered her down to +the middle of an immense crater, which the crew came to nickname "the +coliseum without seats." + +Robb had orders not to leave the ship. Consequently, the crew of four +scrupulously chosen, well-integrated men split into two groups of two. +For three days they labored at gathering specimens, conducting countless +tests and piling up as much data as time and weight would allow. Captain +Robb kept them well reminded of the weight problem attached to the +return trip. + +Near the end of the third day Captain Robb contacted his far flung crew +members over helmet intercom. He ordered them back to the Ajax XX for a +briefing session. + +Soon the men entered the ship. They were hot, uncomfortable and +exhausted. Once back on Earth they could testify that there was nothing +romantic about a thirty-five-pound pressure suit. + + * * * * * + +Hamston, the rocket expert, summed it up: "With that damn bulb over his +skull a man is helpless to remove a single bead of perspiration. He +could easily develop into a raving maniac." + +Robb held his meeting in the control room. "You have eight hours to +finish your work, gentlemen. We're blasting off at 0900." + +"I beg your pardon, Captain," said Kingsley, the young man in charge of +radio operation, "but what about Washington? They haven't made contact +yet and I thought--" + +"I talked with Washington an hour ago!" + +A modest cheer of approval went up from the crew members. + +"Well, why didn't you say so before!" said Anderson, the first officer. + +Robb explained. "It seems _their_ equipment has been haywire for two +days, they haven't been able to get through." + +"How do you like that!" cracked Farnsworth, the astrogator. "We're two +hundred and forty thousand miles off the Earth and our equipment works +fine. They have all the comforts of Earth down at headquarters and they +can't repair radio transmission for two days!" + +The men laughed. + +"Gentlemen," Robb continued, "every radio and TV network in the country +was hooked up to the chief's office in Washington. I not only talked to +General Lovett, I spoke to the whole damn country." + +The men could not contain their excitement. The captain received a +verbal pelting of stored-up questions. + +"Did you get word to my family, Captain?" asked Kingsley. + +"I hope you told them we're physically sound, Captain," said Farnsworth. +"I have a fiancee that'll never forgive me if anything happens to me--" + +"What's the reaction like around the country--" + +"Have the Russians had anything to say yet--" + +"Ha! I'll bet they're sore as hell--" + +"Do you think the army would mind if I hand in my resignation?" +Kingsley's remark brought vigorous applause from the others. + +Captain Robb held up his hand for silence. "Hold on! Hold on! First of +all, General Lovett has personally contacted relatives and told them +we're all physically and mentally sound. Secondly, you'd better get set +to receive the biggest damn welcome in history. The general says half +the nation has invaded Florida for the occasion." + +"Tell them we're not coming back," snapped Kingsley, "until the Florida +Tourist Bureau gives us a cut." + +"Kingsley, the President has declared a national holiday. We'll all be +able to write our own ticket." + +"Yes," Anderson put in, "to hell with the Florida Tourist Bureau!" + +Captain Robb said, "We'll be so sick of parades we'll wish we'd stayed +in this God forsaken place." + +"Not me," boasted Farnsworth. "I'm ready for a parade in my honor any +old time. The sooner the better." + +"Oh, and about the Russians," said Captain Robb, smiling. "There's been +nothing but a steady stream of 'no comment' out of the Kremlin since we +landed here." + +"Right now," said Hamston, "it's probably high noon for every scientist +behind the iron curtain." + +"I wonder how they plan to talk their way out of this one?" asked +Farnsworth. + +"Gentlemen, I'd like to go on talking about the welcome we're going to +receive, but I think we'd better take first things first. Before there +can be a welcome we have to get back. And we still have work to do +before we start." + +"What about souvenirs, Captain?" asked Farnsworth. + +Robb pursed his lips thoughtfully, "Yes, I guess there is a matter of +souvenirs, isn't there." + +The others detected a note of disturbance in the way the captain spoke. + +Kingsley asked, "Is anything wrong, Captain?" + +Robb laughed with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm. "Nothing is wrong, +Kingsley. The fact is we've taken on enough additional weight here to +give us some concern on the return trip." He paused to study the faces +of his men. They were disappointed. "But," he added emphatically, "I +seem to remember promising something about souvenirs--and I guess a man +can't travel five hundred thousand miles without something to show for +it. I'll get together with Hamston and work out something. But remember +that weight problem. First trouble we encounter on the return trip and a +souvenir will be our number one expendable." + +The crew was more than happy with Robb's compromise. Robb went into a +huddle with Hamston, the rocket expert. When he emerged he informed the +crew that each man would be permitted one souvenir which must not exceed +two pounds. He allowed them four hours to find whatever they wanted. The +men got back into their pressure suits and left the ship. + + * * * * * + +Captain Junius Robb stood outside the Ajax XX. His eyes scanned the +great circular plain that stretched for fifty miles in all directions. +The distant jagged rises of the crater's rim resembled the lower half of +a gigantic bear trap. + +The moon in all its splendor--wasn't there a song that went something +like that?--the moon in all its splendor, or lack of it was Robb's mute +opinion. The scientists, as usual, were right about the place. To all +intents and purposes the moon was as dead as The Roman Empire. True they +had found scattered vegetation; there were even two or three volcanoes +spewing carbonic acid, but they spewed it as though it were life's last +breath. + +Nothing more. The fires of the moon had given way to soft lifeless +ashes. + +Robb was glad he had allowed the men to look for souvenirs. After all, +it wasn't a hell of a lot to ask for. A man could cut press clippings +and collect medals and frame citations; and probably these things would +impress grandchildren someday. But it seemed that nothing would be quite +as effective as for a man to be able to produce something tangible, an +authentic piece of the moon itself. + +Captain Robb had always tried to be a humble man. He recalled an +interview held by the three wire services a week before take-off. One of +the reporters had asked the obvious question, "Why do you want to go to +the moon?" He could have given all of the high sounding, aesthetic +reasons, but instead his answer was indirect, given with a modest smile. +"To get to the other side, I guess," he had told them. + +Like the chicken crossing the road, that was how simple and +uncomplicated Robb's life had been. But now he stood, his feet spread +apart, beside his mighty ship, a quarter of a million miles away from +home. He was the first! And he could not fight back the feeling of pride +and accomplishment that welled in him. The word "first" in this instance +conjured up names like Balboa, Columbus, Peary, Magellan--and Junius +Robb. + +The crew members deserved the hero's welcome they would receive. They +could have the banquets, parades and honorary degrees. But it was Junius +Robb who had commanded the flight. It would be Junius Robb's name for +the history books. + +He wouldn't be needing any souvenirs. + + * * * * * + +Kingsley and Anderson were the first to return. They both carried small +leather bags. Inside the ship they revealed the contents to Robb. He +examined them carefully. + +Kingsley had found an uncommonly large patch of brownish vegetation. He +had torn away a sizeable chunk and placed it in the bag. "Who knows?" he +shrugged. "I might be able to cultivate it." + +"Or let it play the lead in a science fiction movie," snapped Anderson. + +The first officer's bag contained a piece of one of the smaller craters. +It had no immediately discernable value. It was Anderson's intention to +polish it up and put some kind of a metal plaque on it. + +Four more hours went by and there was no sign of Farnsworth or Hamston. +Robb began to worry. He'd never forgive himself if anything happened to +either of the two men. He waited another half hour, then ordered Kinsley +and Anderson to put on their pressure suits and go look for the two +missing crew members. + +The search was avoided as Farnsworth entered the ship dragging Hamston +behind him. + +"What happened!" yelled Robb. + +Farnsworth began the job of getting out of his pressure suit. "I don't +know. Hamston's sick as a dog. I checked every inch of his suit and +couldn't find anything out of order." + +Robb bent over the prone rocket expert. Hamston looked up at him with +half-opened eyes and an insipid grin on his face. He mumbled something +about "a fine state of affairs." + +They removed Hamston's suit and placed his limp frame on a bunk. Robb +examined him for forty minutes. + +He reached the curious conclusion that Hamston was as fit as a fiddle. + +The rocket expert fell asleep. Robb and the rest of the crew prepared to +blast off. + + * * * * * + +The Ajax XX thrust itself through space, halfway back to its home +planet. + +The excitement of her crew members grew with every passing second. In +his concern over Hamston, Farnsworth had forgotten about his souvenir. +He now opened his bag and displayed it before the others. + +"What is it?" asked Kingsley. + +"Dust!" was Farnsworth's proud reply. + +"What the hell you going to do with dust?" + +"Maybe you don't know it but this is going to be the most valuable dust +on the face of the Earth! Do you realize what I can get for an ounce of +this stuff?" + +"What's anybody want to buy dust for?" + +"Souvenirs, man, souvenirs!" + +Farnsworth asked to see what Kingsley and Anderson had picked up. The +two men obliged. For the next hour the three men and Robb discussed the +mementoes and their possible uses on Earth. + +Then Anderson said, "I sure wouldn't turn down about a gallon of good +Kentucky whiskey right now!" + +Robb laughed. "We did enough sweating on the way. You wouldn't want to +sweat out the trip back on a belly full of booze." + +"That may be a better idea than you think it is, Captain." + +The four men turned to find Hamston sitting up on his bunk. + +"Hamston!" Robb exclaimed, "how do you feel?" + +"Terrible." + +"What happened to you?" asked Kingsley. + +Hamston stared at each man individually. He took a deep breath and his +cheeks puffed up as he let it out slowly. "Well, I guess you'd better +know now." + +Robb frowned. "What do you mean?" + +"Farnsworth and I separated after we got about four miles from the ship. +I thought I saw something that looked like a cave. I figured I might +find something interesting there to take back with me. So I told +Farnsworth I'd keep radio contact with him and off I went." + +"Did you find a cave?" Robb wanted to know. + +"No, it was just a big indentation in the wall of the crater. I threw +some light on it and found it to be ten or fifteen feet deep." He paused +as though not sure of what to say next. + +"So?" + +"So that's where I found my souvenir." + +"Well, let's see it!" said Anderson. + +Hamston opened his leather bag. The object he removed rendered the crew +weak in the knees. He said, "We can have that drink, Anderson, but I +don't think we'll enjoy it." + +He poured them each a shot from a half-filled bottle of Vodka. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Moon Glow, by G. L. 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