 What likely happens to Ledman after the story ends?
Nothing but what had stopped us could stop a sandcat: sand in the delicate mechanism of the atomic engine. Behind us somewhere was the comfort of the Dome, ahead nothing but the mazes and gullies of this dead world. I stopped, slipped out of the geiger harness, and lowered myself ponderously to the ground. I was neatly bound in thin, tough, plastic tangle-cord, swathed from chin to boot-bottoms, my arms imprisoned, my feet caught. And tangle-cord is about as easy to get out of as a spider's web is for a trapped fly. It had been spun on us only a short time ago, I realized. He wore an outmoded, bulky spacesuit and a fishbowl helmet, all but the face area opaque.
 He will undergo physical and mental health care before starting over
 He is given new legs and can start a new life  He will rejoin the search for uranium  Even with his wheelchair he must receive mental health treatment  He will undergo physical and mental health care before starting over