Conquest of Space Page #2

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self-induced inability of the nerves

to transmit brain messages.

In your Ianguage, space fatigue.

- Self-induced?

- Well, not consciously, of course.

Each mind has its own Iimit

of endurance, at which point it rebels.

The result can be anything.

Simple hives, hallucination, headache,

Ioss of speech, paralysis,

total insanity, anything.

AII of us up here suffer from the

same disease to some degree.

It is to be expected.

Man has never before Iived in space.

Fortunately, most of the cases are

so minor they present no problem.

But Cooper?

Cooper will be perfectly normal...

-...as soon as you return him to Earth.

- That bad?

What he experienced

was simply a warning.

If it happens again,

it could be permanent.

I see.

How about the others?

Andre, Imoto, excellent.

As for Siegle, Sanella

and Donkersgoed...

...every day with them, it is

a new set of horrible afflictions.

Some of them completely unknown

to medical science.

Furthermore, they all seem to have

an absolute Ioathing for the Wheel,

its commanding officer, its doctor,

and the Space Corps in general.

Everything...with the possible

exception of good food...

...and women.

In other words, they're normal.

Thank you very much, major.

What's the matter, sir, are you ill?

No.

No, I'm all right.

Carry on.

My Rosie!

Thank heaven science ain't found

no way to put you up in capsules.

The future Mrs. Siegle, Pedro!

How'd you Iike to paddle that

around in your gondola?

- For a wife, too skinny.

- Too skinny?

That's beautiful skin, boy.

Andre, what did they say?

- I'm not out, am I?

- Out of what, Roy?

The Spaceship. It must have a crew.

Now, Iook, Roy...

...the colonel hasn't told us

definitely we are the crew.

We don't have to be told.

We are, you know we are.

Every man on the Wheel won his place

after six months of the stiffest

competition in the world.

Each one of us were handpicked

from the winners for this special duty.

Who else is being conditioned as we

are? Special food, special exercise.

Tests, Iectures! Watched every

second! Never any Ieave!

You fellows know how...

How tough it's been.

Now, just because I had a...

...bad couple of minutes out there...

That's funny, I didn't think to have

a bad couple of minutes myself.

I don't think we're going no place.

AII right, so we built a spaceship.

That doesn't mean we have to fly it.

Hey, maybe we're guinea pigs.

Maybe they wanna find out how much

of them cosmic rays a human carcass

can absorb before we Iight

up Iike Christmas trees.

And at double pay,

I can Iearn to Iike cosmic rays.

With all that Ioot, boy,

I'm gonna open a TV shop,

settle down, marry my Rosie

and raise a houseful of kids.

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