

Three more killings are reported, and Chuck is beginning to put the pieces together. After taking care of formalities and arranging compensation for damages, a crew is sent to San Pedro to salvage the rest of Y-13. It scared the bull, which jumped from the ring and almost killed His Excellency, the Minister for Social Services. DeGareara tells them that the tail section of Y-13 fell from the sky into a new bullring in San Pedro. Meanwhile, Capt Richards is paid a visit by Senor Ramon DeGareara Roger Delgado, consul for Mexico at Santa Fe.
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Chuck theorizes that the encrustation may be some sort of "cosmic protection", like the primeval creatures that crawled out of the sea and grew skin to protect themselves from the sun. Oddly, wherever the encrustation occurs on the hull of Y-13, the metal is intact, but in places not encrusted, the metal has transformed into a brittle substance, like crumbling carbon, that can easily be reduced to a powder. The results show that the shiny specks are particles of meteorite dust "that show no signs of structural damage such as would be expected from passage through atmosphere." Later, Dr von Essen demonstrates for Chuck the results of metallurgical tests on the encrustation. The next day, Chuck stops at Aviation Medicine where Tia, who just happens to work there, has the test results sent down to them while they break for coffee. The oxygen lead appears to be the one from Y-13.Ĭhuck is beginning to suspect that the killings may have something to do with the crashed spaceship and requests that Wilson send samples of the shiny specks to Dr von Essen at Aviation Medicine. They also find a piece of what looks like a "high-altitude oxygen lead" lying under the dead cow's body. They see the same specks on the necks of the dead cattle. When Chuck and Chief Wilson examine the body of the nurse, Chuck notices some shiny specks around the wound as well as on the blood bank door. Both the cows and the blood bank nurse show similar wounds - jagged tears across the throat. The next day, the headline in the Santa Fe Daily News reads "Terror Roams State" and tells of brutal and inhuman slaughtering of cows on a farm right next door to where the Y-13 fell. Later that night, a wheezing creature breaks into the New Mexico State Blood Bank in Alameda and drinks up a lot of the blood. Tests also reveal some sort of unknown encrustation on the hull, unusual because not x-rays nor infrared photography nor ultraviolet will pass through it. Tests on the recovered aircraft show that the automatic escape mechanism as well as the breaking chute operated perfectly. No way could the pilot have survived the crash. Wilson meets with Commander Chuck and shows him the wreckage. Chief Wilson has the presence to notify the military in case it has something to do with their recent rocket firing. The next that is heard about Y-13 is a report to the New Mexico State Police that some Mexican farmer saw a parachute attached to some sort of plane land near his farm on Route 17 about 10 miles south of Alvarado. He climbs to 1,320,000 feet (250 miles) and suddenly loses control of the ship and passes through some meteorite dust, so he is forced to catapult. At 600,000 feet, when he is supposed to level off and begin his descent, he continues to climb, even firing his emergency boost. Still, Capt Richards wants Dan to pilot the Y-13, after he has been throughly checked out and briefed by Doctor Paul von Essen Carl Jaffe. Although Captain Ben Richards of the Air Force Space Command says that Dan is the best pilot they have, he bucked the rules when flying Y-12, went into the ionosphere, had problems landing his ship, and then promptly ran to see his girlfriend, Tia Francesca, before bothering to even make out his report. Template:Non-free video cover Template:Non-free fair use rationale Template loop detected: Template:Otheruses4įirst Man into Space (also known as Satellite of Blood) is a 1959 science fiction horror film directed by Robert Day and distributed by Amalgamated films.Ĭommander Charles "Chuck" Prescott is not so sure that his brother, Lieutenant Dan Prescott, is the correct choice for piloting the Y-13 into outer space. Template loop detected: Template:Information Summary ĭVD cover for the film First Man into Space ( Criterion #367).
