Edmond Hamilton - Captain Future's Worlds of Tomorrow 02 - Pluto

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PLUTO, THE SOLAR SYSTEM'S COLDEST PLANET

LUTO, the outermost, coldest planet of the Solar

System, was first visited in the year 2002 by Jan

Wenzi, whose name has since been given to the

planet's great north polar sea.

PWenzi was the third of that great triumvirate of

space-pioneers, the other two of whom were the immor-

tal Gorham Johnson and Mark Carew. These three first

trail-blazers of space were men of widely different

type.

The lanky, somber-eyed Gorham Johnson, who

made the initial space-flight to the moon in 1971, and

who led the 1979 expedition to Venus and Mercury and

the 1988 expedition to Mars and Jupiter, is of course

the most famous of that great trio. Johnson was a

dreamer - the greatest our race has ever known. It was

the dream of mankind expanding without limit into the

vast universe which spurred him on, even after his frail

body collapsed and he walked on artificial limbs.

Mark Carew, second in command of the Mars-

Jupiter expedition, took the leadership after Johnson's

tragic death on Callisto. He was basically a scientist.

Thirst for knowledge was the driving motive of Carew.

It led him to organize the 1991 expedition which first

visited Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. And it led him, a

few years later, on that last vain attempt to reach Pluto

from which Carew never returned.

MUTINY IN SPACE

But Jan Wenzi, to whom was reserved the glory of

reaching the farthest planet, was neither dreamer nor

scientist. He was of the age-old explorer type that is ob-

sessed by an unceasing desire to push beyond all

known frontiers, and to look upon places never before

seen by man.

Wenzi in his book (My Story, 2005), tells how as a

boy of fourteen he was in the crowd that watched

Gorham Johnson take off on his first epochal flight to

the moon.

"The crowd there on the Colorado plateau was mak-

ing skeptical jokes as Johnson entered the little rocket-

ship," writes Wenzi, "and when the craft roared up and

vanished there was much comment to the effect that a

crazy man had found a unique method of committing

suicide. But I knew, as I looked up into the sky after the

vanished ship, that some day I too was going to go out

there and look on worlds never seen before by Earth-

men."

When Gorham Johnson returned from the moon, and

was greeted by such a wild reception as no hero had

ever before been accorded, Wenzi tried frantically to

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