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Dimensions in time and space told in future tense.

Dimension.

Act, that's, like,

Night,

Tonight,

Tonight,

Transcribed from Ray Bradbury's collection, The Martian Chronicles, we present,

and the moon be still as bright.

The first three expeditions to Mars left Earth in a mushroom of flame,

arched through the atmosphere, and finally dwindled to tiny specks on the big eye of Mount Palomar telescope,

and then were lost to sight forever.

The prearranged landing signals flashed back to Earth, and then the radios went dead.

One after the other, ships had disappeared and were never heard from again.

But still the rockets came.

The fourth expedition emerged from the silent gulfs of space

and angled down toward the floating red disk of Mars, down into an orbit as the order came to land.

Stand by for deceleration.

Deceleration, aye, sir.

Skids down.

Skids down, sir.

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