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by Raymond Z. Gallun

"All space was electrified as that harsh challenge rang out ... but John Endlich hesitated. For he saw beyond his own murder - saw the horror and destruction his death would unleash - and knew he dared not fight back!"

Enjoyable yarn describes the travails of an ordinary guy and his little family homesteading on the asteroid Vesta.

Although the story contains some improbable elements (like the notion that Vesta is a surface fragment of an exploded planet, but with all of its surface details intact, including alien farm buildings), it has some good science and gives a fitting impression of what it would be like to start a little farm on an asteroid. Someone has to feed those asteroid miners.

Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:

Self-Repairing Aircraft Mimic Borg Cubes
   It may be possible for aircraft to repair structural damage in flight - kind of like a Borg cube, but with no offers to assimilate passengers. Yet.

Lunar Oasis Greenhouse 2012
   That plant will need a space suit to survive on the surface of the moon. And that's what the Lunar Oasis is. With video.

Bendable, Self-Healing Concrete
   This engineered cement composite can not only bend, it can heal itself without any intervention from human beings.

Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels
   Linked chains of polymer molecules... with 'dangling side chain' molecules.

Self-Healing Materials - Microencapsulated or Microvascular
   'An inter-skin layer of gum that could seal the punctures...'

Seven (Ten!) Inflatable Space Structures From Science Fiction
   'In another minute John Endlich and his wife were setting up an airtight tent...' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

Self-Healing Polymer Works Without Catalyst
   'It even had an inter-skin layer of gum that could seal the punctures...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

Self-Healing Plastic Fixes Even Big Holes
   'The room had been strained and healed faultily....'- JG Ballard, 1962.

Are Human Settlements On Asteroids Possible?
   'Here on Vesta... the interior of this five-acre greenhouse was the one most desirable place to be.'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1953.

NASA's VestaTrek - Visit Asteroid Vesta
   'At the Asteroids Homesteaders' School in Chicago... he had been shown diagrams and photographs of Vesta.'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

Living Concrete Repairs Itself
   Science fiction fans were given this idea in 1951.

Self-Healing Materials For Spacecraft
   'It even had an inter-skin layer of gum that sealed the punctures...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

Self-Adapting Composite Heals Itself
   '...Could seal the punctures that grain-of-sand-sized meteors might make.' - Ramond Z. Gallun, 1951.

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module Attached to ISS
   'John Endlich and his wife were setting up an airtight tent...' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

NASA's Prototype Lunar Greenhouse For Mars And Moon
   'In contrast to the airless desolation outside, the interior of this five-acre greenhouse was the one most desirable place to be.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

Self-Healing Circuits From Carnegie Mellon
   'It even had an inter-skin layer of gum that could seal the punctures...'- Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

Self-Healing Material Pulls Carbon Out Of The Air
   '... could seal the punctures.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

WINE Spacecraft To Extract Water From Asteroids
   'Yes, strangely enough there was still sufficient water beneath the surface of Vesta.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

'Aerogel' Sheets For Martian Gardens
   'Sealed to the ground along all the sides, Honey, he growled...' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

Grow Plants On Moon Or Mars!
   'In contrast to the airless desolation outside, the interior of this five-acre greenhouse was the one most desirable place to be.' Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

RUSSE Self-Healing Plastic Works Underwater
   'It even had an inter-skin layer of gum that could seal the punctures...' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

First Ever Proof Of Water On Asteroids
   'Yes, strangely enough there was still sufficient water beneath the surface of Vesta.' - Raymond Z. Gallun, 1951.

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