This is convenient to do on an airless planet, since nobody lives outside to complain about being deprived of sunlight.

Far below the pod revolved the bleak, airless planet to which they were descending.

I should have tried it first, but with a virtually airless and, therefore, cloudless planet, the attempt.

All of it was under cover, for this was an airless planet.

There were no signs of life on the airless planet, and the enemy was closing in.

It was of a type designed for blasting on airless planets, but that did not matter.

I know that some people think it must be very entertaining to walk around on an airless, low-gravity planet in spacesuits.

Our Moon being an airless planet, a torchship can land on it.

"This one's on an airless planet - and it hasn't been touched."

But what a vessel can do above an airless planet, at suborbital speed, without coming to grief, is sharply limited.