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Updated: May 5, 2025
"Have you heard from the Space Knight?" called Tom. "Sorry, Space Lance," came the reply, "there has been no contact with Space Knight." Tom began to feel the fingers of fear creeping up and down his spine. Quent Miles had carried out his plan of going on to Ganymede without refueling, threatening not only his own life, but Roger's as well.
We can't lift from there without refueling and of course the Patrol are going to sit on their hands while we do that with us Posted! No, put out of your heads any plan for getting back to Sargol within the time limit. Thorson's right that way we're flamed out!" Rip slumped in his seat. "So the Eysies can take over after all?" "As I see it," Dane cut in, "let's just take one thing at a time.
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.
"Not a thing, Commander," he replied. "We've done just about everything but take the force-field projectors apart, but so far we haven't found a thing wrong." "Any word on the race, Joe?" asked Strong. Howard looked surprised. "By the stars, I almost forgot. One of the ships is trying to make it to Ganymede without stopping at Deimos for refueling. And another blew up." Strong gasped. "Which one?"
The next day the Air Force identified the UFO's; they were Air Force airplanes, KC-97 aerial tankers, refueling B-47 jet bombers in flight. The reason for the weird effect that startled so many Southern Californians was that when the refueling is taking place a floodlight on the bottom of the tanker airplane lights up the bomber that is being refueled.
He had only one alternative: the Martians, in the Icaria Desert, halfway around Mars. They would remember him and shelter him, and he was sure he could find the spot. He looked at his fuel gauge. The tank was full. It would not take him quite there, but he could chance refueling at Solis Lacus, some 20,000 kilometers from Mars City.
The same held true, and still does, for the odd array of lights used on tanker planes during aerial refueling operations. Some phenomena are so rare and so little is known about them that they are always UFO's. The most common is the disc following the airplane. I've never heard an explanation for this phenomenon but it exists and I've seen it on three occasions.
Nothing but static and silence greeted him. "Space Knight, come in!" He waited again as the sleek white ship plummeted deeper into space toward the first refueling stop on Deimos, one of the small twin moons of Mars. Still there was no acknowledging reply from the black ship that had streaked ahead of them after the blast-off. "I'm going to try to contact Kit Barnard," said Tom.
"And I'll have to take your word for it until Manning can answer for himself." "How did you manage to make it from Earth to Ganymede without refueling, Quent?" asked Kit slowly. "And what have you got in your ship to get that kind of speed?" Miles' lips curled in a twisted grin. "That's my secret, spaceman," he said, turning away. "Well, I've got to report to my boss. Great race, Kit.
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