Ships to the Stars (2013)
“A globe of almost airless, sun-blanched rock two thousand miles wide, Luna hung now beside the earth but moving out beyond her, away from the sun. The only face of her that earthlings ever saw was now half in the full glare of raw sunlight, half in darkness. It was the night of the half moon, or first quarter as it is commonly called.
But on this night of the half moon, Luna at last had two moons of her own, though they were as invisible to earth-side viewers as the two tiny moons of Mars. ...Free-falling around her at almost a mile a second in tight orbits a few score miles above her cratered surface with its "seas" (mares) of darker rock, were two small manned ships, one of the American Space Force, one of the Russian Space Force. Making a swift circuit of the moon every two hours, the pilots of these ships were each rushing through independent surveys of the moon's treacherous pumice-powdered surface, in preparation for actual landings of larger exploration ships in the near future.MoreLess
But on this night of the half moon, Luna at last had two moons of her own, though they were as invisible to earth-side viewers as the two tiny moons of Mars. ...Free-falling around her at almost a mile a second in tight orbits a few score miles above her cratered surface with its "seas" (mares) of darker rock, were two small manned ships, one of the American Space Force, one of the Russian Space Force. Making a swift circuit of the moon every two hours, the pilots of these ships were each rushing through independent surveys of the moon's treacherous pumice-powdered surface, in preparation for actual landings of larger exploration ships in the near future.MoreLess
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