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Updated: June 23, 2025
No sooner had the Polaris touched the dry airless ground than the air-lock hatch was opened. From the crystal port on the control deck, Tom waved to the men below him. Shinny climbed into the lock first, followed by Astro, Alfie, Roger, and Connel. While Roger and Alfie closed the hatch, Astro and Connel adjusted the oxygen pressure and waited for the supply to build to normal.
Then the crawling tractor with its cars lumbering along behind it on their endless tracks was below them and playing its single light upward. An air-lock in the Nebula opened and a huge hose came slowly down. Odin watched it on the screen. It seemed to have been pleated and shoved together like an accordion.
Dressed in his heavy space-suit and supported by a tractor beam well out of range of what seemed to him terrific heat radiated by the bodies of the Terrestrials, he floated along unconcernedly; while over the multiplex cable of the thought-exchanger he conversed with the man and woman seated just inside the open outer door of their air-lock.
"At least until we find out where the Space Knight is." Tom suddenly remembered the trouble with Roger. "Has there been any news of them at all?" he asked. "The last thing we heard was that he was approaching Ganymede. And that was a few hours ago, when you were trapped in the air-lock chamber." "Ganymede!" Tom was thunderstruck. "But but how did he do it?" Kit shook his head.
Stoney employs a bell of adequate size, from the summit of which rises a hollow cylinder, furnished at the top with an air-lock, by which access can be obtained to the submerged bell.
"Information concerning explosion of rocket ship Space Lance. Please give details on survivors." There was a momentary pause and the loud-speaker crackled with static. The voice of the Deimos operator broke through. "Captain Sticoon dead. Cadet Corbett believed trapped in air-lock chamber. They have just cut through the chamber.
Astro jumped at the exact instant Miles fired. "Rush him," cried Miles. Brett made a headlong dash for Tom, but the cadet side-stepped at the last moment and Brett fell headlong out of the ship, wailing in sudden terror as he fell to the ground. Miles turned to Tom. He ripped off his mask and with his free hand closed the air-lock portal. "You fooled Brett, but you didn't fool me, Corbett."
He knew the air-lock was being filled with air from the huge, globular platform. In time the door at the back bottom base of the passenger-compartment opened. Somebody said flatly: "Space platform! The ship will be in this air-lock for some three hours plus for refueling. Warning will be given before departure.
Before this bridge was built, the air-lock had always been placed at the top of the entrance shaft, where, as the caisson sank and the shaft was lengthened, it had to be constantly moved up. Eads placed it in the air-chamber of the caisson itself, where it never had to be moved; and thus, as the shaft was not filled with compressed air, less was needed, and there was less danger of leaks.
"Just be sure you give me a good course, Manning," grunted Astro, heaving his huge frame out of the small cabin of the jet boat, "and I'll give you all the thrust you want!" Astro secured the jet boats while Roger closed the air-lock hatch, shutting out the last view of the rugged little planetoid. Roger threw the landscape a mocking kiss. "So long, Junior! See you back home!"
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