War for the Moon by Martin Caidin

Description: Imagine a world that has never known life. A ghost planet that for billions of years has never felt the caress of warm seas upon scattered shores, the richness of fertile soil, the gentle heaving of an ocean of air. Never a vivid bolt of lightning or the cannonade of thunder, Not a single leaf to drift to its surface, not one insect to scurry from rock to rock, not a single blade of green to alter the stark desolation. Unseen by our myopic sight from the earth's surface, there remain, perhaps, some vestiges of the planetary horror that once swept this forsaken world. But even the most violent volcanic eruption today would be a weak spasm against the cataclysmic terror that toppled old mountains and in their place formed the ranges we see through our telescopes. Now there is only eternal silence. We speak of this world across space with the unquestioned conviction that man will soon tread its sterile surface. We accept the prospect that man will claim it for his own, for the initial barriers to space have been pulled down, erased by the fiery trails of the first rockets to rush away from earth to fall into orbit about the fiery sun. Man will walk the surface of another world in space. The first voyage across the sea of night will be reality. It will be, however, only a beginning. For the Ghost World is no more than the gateway to the planets.

Price: 15 USD

Location: San Diego, California

End Time: 2025-01-09T18:11:56.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.69 USD