Edmond Hamilton - Captain Future's Worlds of Tomorrow 01 - Jupiter

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A DEPARTMENT OF ASTRO-GEOGRAPHY

JUPITER

UPITER, mighty monarch-world of the Solar Sys-

tem, was first colonized by Earthmen in the year

2005. But men had visited it some years previous-

ly, and had brought back reports of the giant planet's

wonders.

As every school child knows, the first space flight

was that of Gorham Johnson to the moon, in 1971.

Johnson was a veteran of the Second World War who

spent years trying to perfect a rocket that would make

use of the newly discovered atomic power. Soon, after

his first great flight to the moon, he made a second voy-

age in which he reached Venus and Mercury, and a

third in which he touched Mars and Jupiter.

Johnson was accompanied on this great third voyage

of 1988 by Mark Carew, inventor of the gravitation

equalizer. When they sailed on that voyage, their crew

did not know that they meant to go beyond the orbit of

Mars. Had they known, the men would never have

signed up for the trip.

After leaving Mars, Johnson and Carew headed on

outward through the asteroidal belt. Carew, in his book

(Spaceward to Glory, 1994), says that the men became

mutinous when they realized that the voyage was to

continue to Jupiter. They believed, like most other

Earthmen at that time, that the outer planets were all

too cold and poisonous of atmosphere for human exis-

tence, and that they would surely perish there.

LANDED AT CALLISTO

To quiet them, Johnson told them he would not land

on Jupiter, but on one of its larger moons. Their rocket,

the Pioneer II, made a landing on Callisto. There they

were attacked by the crystals of that moon, which

Carew calls "a creeping diamond horror." And it was

there on Callisto that Gorham Johnson was stricken by

a swift fatal sickness, his frame enfeebled by the in-

credible hardships of his three stupendous voyages.

Carew in his book (Page 434) tells how Gorham

Johnson, dying, asked that they carry him out of the

rocket and let him look up at Jupiter, whose vast,

cloudy white bulk filled the sky over them.

"I will never live to reach it, but you must land

there," Johnson murmured to his loyal lieutenant. "It

will be safe. The day will come when Earthmen will

have cities on that great world - yes, and on the worlds

beyond, even out to Pluto."

IN THE VOID

A little later, Johnson died. His last speech, Carew

tells us, was his famous dying request that they release

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ADEPARTMENTOFASTRO-GEOGRAPHYJUPITERUPITER,mightymonarch-worldoftheSolarSys-tem,wasfirstcolonizedbyEarthmenintheyear2005.Butmenhadvisiteditsomeyearsprevious-ly,andhadbroughtbackreportsofthegiantplanet'swonders.JAseveryschoolchildknows,thefirstspaceflightwasthatofGorhamJohnsontothemoon,in1971.Johnsonw...

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