 What goes wrong just as Winship makes contact with earth?
General Finogenov notified Major Winship that the underground blast was scheduled for the following morning. "I'll try again," Major Winship said and switched to the emergency channel. Air currents whisked it away and plastered it against a riveted seam of the dome. Major Winship said, "they should have made these things more flexible." "The only way you can check is to extrude it," Lt. Chandler said, "and if it does extrude, you've ruined it." The Soviet base was situated some ten miles toward sunset at the bottom of a natural fold in the surface. At that point, the best pathway angled left and made an S-shaped descent to the basin.
 He is starting to lose air and needs to have it replaced.
 His communications were cut off, and he has no way to talk to Wilkin.  He is starting to lose air and needs to have it replaced.  He runs out of air and can't breathe.  The communications equipment stops working, and the people down at Earth start to worry.