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"Whenever I wanted anything," said Jones, "I wrote it out and gave a memo to Babs. She attended to it." "My system, exactly," admitted Cochrane. "I wrote out a memo for her," said Jones unhappily, "asking for star-charts and for her to get somebody to set up a system of astrogation for outside the solar system. Nobody's ever bothered to do that before. Nobody's ever reached even Mars!
Then he said longingly, "I didn't get much sleep on the way here, while running a seminar on astrogation. I think I'll take a nap." She rose and almost ostentatiously went into the other cabin, to leave him alone. He shrugged. He settled down into the chair which, to let a Med Ship man break the monotony of life in unchanging surroundings, turned into a comfortable sleeping arrangement.
Then their personnel machines must have whirred rapidly, electronic brains searching for the nearest available Planeteer officer with an astrophysics specialty and astrogation training. He could imagine the reaction when the machine turned up the name of a brand-new lieutenant. But the choice was logical enough.
Walters agreed that it would be better for the captain to go alone, since the uranium discovery must be kept an absolute secret. Working by remote control relays from the control deck, Captain Strong handled the ship as easily as a jet boat and he kept the atomic reactors wide open. He stared into the astrogation prism and sighted on the cold light of the sun star Wolf 359.
Rip took his astrogation instruments and made a number of sights. They looked good. The first blast had worked about as predicted, although he wouldn't be able to tell how much correction was needed until he had taken star sights over a period of five or six days. "Let's go home," he ordered. Back on the asteroid, a pit that glowed with radioactivity marked the site of the first blast.
His skill at the game continued to increase; it was, he saw, just like astrogation, and with growing confidence he learned to project his moves three and sometimes four numbers ahead. On a warm night in mid-July the proprietor of the games hall Alan frequented most regularly stopped him as he entered. "You're Donnell, aren't you?" "That's right. Anything wrong?"
The names of Corbett, Manning, and Astro were becoming synonymous with great adventure in space. But, with all their hairbreadth escapes, the Polaris unit was still just learning its job. The boys were still working off demerits, arguing with instructors on theory, listening to endless study spools, learning the latest advanced methods of astrogation, communication, and reactor-unit operation.
Our friends on the floor ought to begin to come to shortly. And I'm going to find out now whether I'm a hero or in sure-enough trouble!" Maril said drearily, "I don't know what you've done, except " Calhoun blinked at her, in the act of hauling the vacuum suit up his chest and over his shoulders. "Isn't it self-evident?" he demanded. "I've been giving astrogation lessons to these characters.
After a long time Joe said, with very careful casualness, "Come to think of it, I was getting loaded up with astrogation theory when I had to stop and pitch in on the gyros. How's that sick crew member, Sally?" "I wouldn't know," answered Sally unconvincingly. "Have some more coffee?" Joe made his face go completely expressionless. There was nothing else to do.
Out of each fifteen who started training, an average of five fell by the wayside. For Planeteer officers, the requirements were even tougher. Only one out of each five hundred applicants finally received a commission. Six years of training made them proficient in the techniques of exploration, fighting, rocketeering, and both navigation and astrogation.
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