See, if you're not COOL

[baron_waste]

- then Congress tapers your budget down to zip by the mid-1970s.

Whereas, if THIS was how America had gone to the Moon -

Comments

[cpufem]

i don't get it.

[baron_waste]

I'm just joking around. I probably shouldn't have bothered.

[yasha_taur]

We need more spandex spacesuits.....

[pecosdave]

Never forget just how important it is to have a laser pistol on a barren waste land in a vacuum.

[baron_waste]

Don't forget, there could be Reds. They're everywhere, you know… And such a weapon would work better in a vacuum than ever it would in an atmosphere.

(Though as I'm sure you know, ordinary guns work fine on the Moon, so long as you use a graphite lubricant, keep them within a reasonable temperature range and don't let moondust get into the works. A Colonial musket (the British 'Brown Bess,' for example) would encounter few problems… and never a worry about getting your powder wet!

Yet oddly, you could make a case for the cape, either as solar shielding in her case or (with coolant-recirculating tubing sewn in) as a radiator!