Авторы фантастического журнала New Worlds (кадры из номеров, выходивших в 70-е), мечтали о том, что к 2020 году Олимпийские игры будут проходить уже на Луне.
Знаменитый олимпийский огонь будут доставлять с Земли на спутник — да ещё в специальном устройстве, которая поддерживает пламя. А одной из дисциплин станут лунные прыжки на 14 метров.
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NEW WORLDS THE DLYmPIC GAITIES, YEAR EDED If Armstrong, or a base like it is a success, then after 20 years or so it ought to be much bigger - a true Moon city. Whole families could be living on the Moon.The children would regard it as home and perhaps puzzle over the pictures of Earth’s green fields their homesick parents hang on the walls of their living module. The ‘Moonies’ (as they might be called) might want the prestige of holding a major world event.The best thing might well be the First Interplanetary Olympics. On these pages you can read the story of the Games of 2020 as they just might happen.... ▲ It is 11.00 a.m. at Earthport, Africa’s main launch pad: the torch is placed in a special spacebase. A few minutes before, an clamp and Yuri is strapped into his athlete. Yuri Umtali, completed his journey acceleration couch by a stewardess. As the from Athens in Greece, carrying the countdown reaches zero, the shuttle's Olympic Flame. All is ready as he boards motors fire,and,slowly at first, the ship lifts the shuttle-craft waiting for him on the off the launch pad. A Less than 30 minutes later the shuttle is approaching a giant wheel-shaped space station circling the Earth. For the shuttle, the journey is over as it noses gently into the stations main spacelock. For Yuri, the journey has barely begun. A The next stage is the long three day journey from Earth orbit to Lunar orbit. The craft is a comfy spacelincr on which (reporters and video cameras permitting) Yuri can relax. The craft to be used for the actual landing at Armstrong is a replica of the ‘Eagle’ module, the first craft to land on the Moon over half 3 century before.The craft looks the same, but its ‘primitive* power,guidance and life-support systems have been replaced by newer robot-controlled ones. A The Moon landing was uneventful and here Yuri pauses for the video-recorders as he jogs towards the newly-built stadium. The Flame is in a special globular container. In its handle isan oxygen cylinder, in its top is a fan to provide a draught. Without this, the flame would go out - there is no air on the Moon. Hidden from view behind Yuri is a newly erected statute of a spacesuited golfer - the first ‘sportsman’ on the Moon, Alan Shepard Jr, who practised drives when he went to the Moonin 1971.Ina fewminules,the Olympic Games of the year 2020 will start. The stadium is covered with a huge plexiglass dome - the visitors from Earth will have a fine view of their home world through it. 52
The Lunar high jump— 14 metres up handicapped to make a fair comparison with existing Earth records. It is unlikely that native Moonics will set any interplanetary records, as their muscles, used to the tiny pull of the Moon’s gravity will be no match for the tough muscles of the Earth athletes. Pcrhapsa handicappingsystcm will be devised to take that into account too. Yuri Umtah has lit the sacred flame and the Games have started. One of the most extraordinary things about the Lunar Olympics is the effect the Moon’s low gravity - one sixth that of the Earth - has on the sports. A grown man only weighs about 11 kilogrammes there and it ought to be possible to jump up to 14 metres high. As this picture shows,special equipment is needed to replace the bar. The thousands of Moonics in the crowd will feel proud of the new records being set, even though they know that many of them will have to be ___/ 53
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