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Alan brought the _Cavour_ down less than a mile away from the scene of the wreckage -- it was the best he could do, computing the landing by guesswork -- and climbed into his spacesuit. He passed through the airlock and out into the windswept desert.
He felt just a little lightheaded; the gravity was only 0.8 of Earth-norm, and besides that the air in his spacesuit, being perpetually renewed by the Bennerman re-breathing generator strapped to his back, was just a shade too rich in oxygen.