CHAPTER SEVEN: Descent to the Surface of the Moon
Eventually Joe carried the dazed girl back up to the control room, and Del strapped her in as they descended at last toward the Moon, whose cratered face below filled the cabin now with reflected silvery-gray light. As her overloaded senses began to clear and she could focus again on the world beyond her own glowing flesh, she became powerfully curious. She dared not interrupt the pilots, however, for both men were engrossed in their tasks, hard-eyed as they ran through checklists, checked final course corrections on calculating machine and slide rules, flipped switches, adjusted dials. She held her questions, therefore, and even when suddenly the ship turned with a sickening lurch, she may have whimpered a little in fright, but then, crin
