![]() Stranger things we were presently to see, but that airless, star-dusted sky! Of all things, I think that will be one of the last I shall forget. But now at last I could realise the meaning of the hosts of heaven! The stars we see on earth are the mere scattered survivors that penetrate our misty atmosphere. Those who have only seen the starry sky from the earth cannot imagine its appearance when the vague, half luminous veil of our air has been withdrawn. The sky outside was as black as the darkness within the sphere, but the shape of the open window was marked by an infinite number of stars. I will open a blind-"Ĭame a click, and then a window in the outer case yawned open. "We are flying away from the earth at a tangent, and as the moon is near her third quarter we are going somewhere towards her. ![]() For a time, whether it was long or short I do not know, there was nothing but blank darkness.Ī question floated up out of the void. He said we had not overmuch energy stored, and that what we had we must economise for reading. ![]() Previous Chapter Next Chapter Chapter 5: The Journey to the Moon ![]()
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