"Gentlemen, Be Seated!"

Jack Arnold
Journalist vacationing in Luna, who hoped to pick up a story while he was there. He was trapped with several Lunar employees in a recently constructed tunnel when a mail rocket crashed nearby, causing a moonquake. He and the others survived by plugging a leak by sitting on it until rescuers arrived.
("Gentleman, Be Seated")

Journalist's Guild
[mentioned in passing] Jack Arnold was a member.

Knowles (no first name)
Paymaster for Richardson Observatory. He gave Jack Arnold a tour of the tunnel construction and was trapped with him after a crashed rocket ruptured the tunnel's seal.

Fatso Konski (no other first name)
Lunar worker trapped with Jack Arnold and Knowles when a crashed rocket ruptured the seal of the tunnel they were touring. He plugged an air leak by sitting on it.

Richardson Observatory
Its paymaster gave Jack Arnold a tour of the tunnel construction and was trapped with him after a crashed rocket ruptured the tunnel's seal.
(also in other stories)

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