A Perfect WorldChapter 6
The passenger window of the surface-to-orbit spacecraft was a little bigger than aircraft windows in the 21st century. It was about two feet square, Ken estimated, and not composed of the thick, blurry double panes of glass as were passenger aircraft windows. Instead, the barrier between himself and the lethal Martian atmosphere was nothing but a thin layer of the same sort of clear plexiglass that made up the walls of the serenity level on top of the university building, or the glass that...