Amusing Moon illustration and caption, 1950s book

[okiscopey]

I think the picture says it all!

[xelasnave]

That's fake she does not have her helmet on...
Alex

[deanm]

Looks like my Mum...!

Dean

[Bart]

Really need that pistol, too! Haven't you seen Transformers!! :rofl:

[Stonius]

But it's so hard to draw when it's holstered inside the pressure suit!! :-)

[drylander]

That's why you have a zip in the side. The monsters obligingly wait for you to get ready before attacking. :rofl:They came up with some amazing stuff that they thought would be in use by 2000. :eyepop:
Amazingly some of it happened though not quite as drawn at the time.
Pete

[AussieTrooper]

Dare I ask what the pistol is for?

[bojan]

Is this lady American?
Then the answer is in Consitution :D

[billdan]

The pistol is for an emergency getaway.
If her crew left without her, she would fire the pistol into the ground and the recoil will lift her off the moon and she can catch up to her mates. ( And use the remaining bullets for revenge).

[inertia8]

I dare say the pistol is to dispatch any crew member that endangered the group? ie: for Matt Damon

[el_draco]

Shooting oneself in the head when you realise you are breathing a vacuum...

[markbakovic]

forget the pistol how gnarly is that moon lander? Asymmetric and dangerous from both ends: the moon monsters'd be all "it's just so.... alien... man!"

[AussieTrooper]

Looks like it had crashed.

[casstony]

Lunar Cowboys and Indians with the Russians?