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When Flash Gordon rockets into space, he plunges out into an airless void, uncharted, lifeless, and unknown, where stars are steady, unwinking circles of brilliance in the dense, eternal night. In this void are set the suns, planets, meteors, and comets, like jewels in black velvet, circling and spinning in obedience to nature's unchanging laws.
But, fearful as it seems, space is not as terrible to us as a large body of water seemed to the first man, we know more about space than Columbus knew about the Atlantic Ocean before he set out upon his voyage – for we can see the other side. Like the ocean, space is a medium for travel, requiring only a ship which can propel its rocket tubes. And, like the ocean, space is a challenge to seek the farther shore – the moon, the planets, and beyond to the stars.
The challenge will be met by spaceships – which could be built today – and by men like Flash Gordon, who will, like Columbus, have the courage to dare high adventure, who will conquer the greatest ocean of all – the ocean of Space.
