Review of “Tight Squeeze” (1955)
Dean Ing (writer).
Read in 2025.
Emergency repair work on a spaceship.
A fairly simple and unusually solemn techno-thriller of the space race. Its most central premise, which is magnetic audio tapes of instructions for maintenance work, is so obviously bad that the protagonist himself both comes up with it and rejects it; NASA probably did the same without actually shooting those tapes into orbit.