 What is lung-rot?
Spacemen Die at Home By EDWARD W. LUDWIG Illustrated by THORNE One man's retreat is another's prison ... and it takes a heap of flying to make a hulk a home! And yet, at the same time, to be filled with a terrible, gnawing fear—a fear locked in my mind during the day and bursting out like an evil jack-in-the-box at night. For it was June in this year of 1995, and we were the graduating class of the U. S. Academy of Interplanetary Flight. And the left side of his face was streaked with dark scar tissue, the result of an atomic blowup on one of the old Moon ships. That's what most of you want, isn't it?
 Lung-rot is a disease caused by chemicals in the Martian atmosphere.
 Lung-rot is a disease caused by chemicals in the Martian atmosphere.  Lung-rot is tuberculosis.  A disease that presents like whooping cough.  Lung-rot is Martian slang for pneumonia.