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"Next Stop The Moon" (Collier's Magazine, September 1946) (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by pauldrye@lemm.ee to c/raygungothic@lemm.ee

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Collier's is famous for their extensive "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" series printed from 1952-54, but this is from another article of theirs on a similar topic printed several years before.

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[–] pauldrye@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The shields are thermocouples to generate solar power, in those days before photovoltaic cells -- well, they'd just been patented a few months before and nobody had heard of them yet or even knew why they worked.

The poles are, I think, just trekking poles with gaffs on them to help with steep inclines.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

oh good I thought they imagined they would be fighting the moon aliens