There was high adventure on the moon when it was first colonized. Men faced various ways of dying—all of them unpleasant—and found that simply staying alive was a great satisfaction and a full-time occupation. Because of this spirit—which is that of true adventure—there came to be bases where hydroponic gardens freshened the air and men took continued living as a matter of course. This, obviously, was not adventure. So problems arose. Men began to be moved by other motives than the zest they’d known at first. But there were still a great many ways of getting killed on the moon. So there came a time when Colonel Ed McCauley had to insist that certain men under his command put first things first, as adventurers do, and not act for the gratification of their problem personalities.
There was
