Astounding Science Fiction February 1950 (Volume 44, Number 6)
Illustrations by Brush, Ed Cartier, Hicks, Hubert Rogers, Ward. Cover by Hubert Rogers (for "To the Stars")

Serial: "To the Stars" (Part 1 of 2) by L. Ron Hubbard (1954 book title was Return to the Stars.)

Novelettes: "The Sound" by A. E. van Vogt
"Promised Land" by Lawrence O'Donnell (=Kuttner and/or Moore - C. L. Moore in this case.)

Stories: "The Perfect Weapon" by Poul Anderson
"Suburban Frontiers" by Roger Flint Young
"Number Nine" by Cleve Cartmill
"…and Be Merry" by Katherine MacLean.

Article: "Ergodic Prediction" by J. J. Coupling.

John W. Campbell's editorial is "Interplanetary Balloons." Book reviews by P. Schuyler Miller, Milton A. Rothman, Weaver Wright.