Before We Actually Launched People into Space...
...the newly-formed NASA was incredibly-concerned about "real-world" problems most sci-fi stories never addressed!
Both pages above written by Gaylord DuBois, illustrated by Murphy Anderson
When you look back on it, it's astonishing how much info we did have when the only tools we were utilizing were ground-based visual telescopes and spectrometers!
The only satellites we (or the Russkies) had at that point were just metal-hulled shells with radio transmitters and radiation detectors (like geiger counters)!
One thing the scientists were adamant about, even then, was first orbiting the Moon without actually landing, in order to make close-up observations of the Moon and "field-test" equipment as much as possible before actually landing!
In fact, the surprisingly scientifically-accurate 1959 TV series Men into Space did exactly that in the series' premiere episode, "Space Probe", which was adapted into comic form...
We're running that tale in Space Hero Saturdays this coming Saturday!
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Note: We already re-presented the comic adaptation of the show's second episode, "Moon Landing" HERE and HERE at our brother RetroBlog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video, our usual locale for comic book/graphic novel adapatations of movies/TV shows/radio shows!
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