Moonrise (1996)
“When the rocket ignited Doug could feel a surge of vibration in his bones that rumbled in his ears almost like sound. Still, the lack of thundering noise made Doug feel slightly eerie. And of course the thrust he felt was minuscule compared to a Clippership liftoff from Earth.
The excitement of the previous night’s conversation with his mother hadn’t worn off, exactly. The thought of going out to capture an asteroid and then using its carbon to build Clipperships out of diamond still tingled in... the back of Doug’s mind. But that was for the future. This flight to the Moon’s south pole was now.
He had spent an hour in the main airlock, big enough to accommodate full-sized tractors and dozens of people, pre-breathing the oxygen-nitrogen mixture that they would be using throughout the expedition. Moonbase ran on “normal” air: almost eighty percent nitrogen and twenty oxygen, with traces of carbon dioxide and water vapor, all at 14.7 pounds per square inch, almost exactly like the clean dry atmosphere of a desert region on Earth.MoreLess
The excitement of the previous night’s conversation with his mother hadn’t worn off, exactly. The thought of going out to capture an asteroid and then using its carbon to build Clipperships out of diamond still tingled in... the back of Doug’s mind. But that was for the future. This flight to the Moon’s south pole was now.
He had spent an hour in the main airlock, big enough to accommodate full-sized tractors and dozens of people, pre-breathing the oxygen-nitrogen mixture that they would be using throughout the expedition. Moonbase ran on “normal” air: almost eighty percent nitrogen and twenty oxygen, with traces of carbon dioxide and water vapor, all at 14.7 pounds per square inch, almost exactly like the clean dry atmosphere of a desert region on Earth.MoreLess
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