（外文电子版资料）Alexander Lazarevich - The Moon Dream.pdfVIP

Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, /abclit.html THE MOON DREAM AlexanderLazarevich A legend is an imaginative work of fiction that purports to betrue. Definition from a dictionary 1. All his life was one long road to the Moon. All hislife he was racingagainst time to reach it. Sometimes itseemed to him thathe would be too late, the span of human life being short for someone who had had to start virtually from scratch, from a fragile glider, a plaything of winds, to gradually build up and Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, /abclit.html enhancehis design into a spaceship capable of taking man to the Moon. He hadbuilt the glider when he was still very young, but even backthen he was longing for greater things than just flying inthe air, remaining a prisoner of the Earths atmosphere. Even backthen, he saw the Moon in his dreams. Therehe was , opening thehatch, climbing down a short ladder in his cumbersome spacesuit, to put his foot on the rocky surface. The rocks flooded with adazzling Sun set against the inky blackness of sky. A land ofsilent, dazzling, and dead beauty. The only relief for the eyes being a small blue sickle of Earth in the black sky. And, surroundedwith all this boundless lifeless Nature, there She was - The Machine, The Ship, the material manifestation of human thought, a particle that had absorbed all the achievements of many millenniaof the Earths civilization, a small fragment of Home, thatcan shelter the cosmonaut from the abyss of Space... The firsttime he experienced that feeling had been when he was tryingout his glider - the vast emptiness of the sky might have beenoverpowering, bu