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With the gate gone the Terrans were committed to this time, just as they had earlier been committed to Hawaika when on their home world they had entered the spaceship for the take-off. There was no escape from the past, which had become their present. "The Foanna," she continued, "these Wreckers, the sea people all at odds with one another.
It was meeting the Platform after only half a circuit of Earth, while the Platform had climbed upward for three full revolutions. Earth was now 3,000 miles below and appeared as the most gigantic of possible solid objects. It curved away and away to mistiness at its horizons, and it moved visibly as the spaceship floated on. Invisible microwaves flung arrowlike through emptiness.
Again, barring the door behind him, he sat before the audioceiver and began calling the Polaris. "This is Cadet Corbett aboard rocket ship Space Knight in quadrant four, chart C for Charley. Corbett aboard spaceship Space Knight in quadrant four, chart C for Charley! Come in, Commander Walters! Come in!"
He knew that this was the last hurdle. He did not know that the papers had been prepared individually, the tests given on the basis of the entrance exams he had taken back at New Chicago Primary Space School. He studied the first question. " ... What is the range of the Mark Nine radar-scope, and how far can a spaceship be successfully distinguished from other objects in space?..."
"If you aim a spaceship at Mars, for instance, and tell it to go through the planet, it might try to obey, but you'd lose the machine in the process." A ripple of laughter went through the men. They were a little more relaxed now, and Fitzhugh had regained their attention. "And you must admit," Fitzhugh added, "a spaceship which was given that sort of information might be dangerous."
And Major Connel, alert and alive once more, drove his crew toward greater goals than it had achieved before. Nearly three days later, the Polaris appeared over the twin oceans of Tara and glided into an orbit just beyond the pull of the planet's gravity. Aboard the spaceship, last-minute preparations were made by the red-eyed spacemen.
He suspected that most radio stations would stay on the air all night, now that it was officially admitted that the object in Boulder Lake was a spaceship bringing invaders to earth. The government releases spoke of them as "visitors," in a belated use of the term, but the public was suspicious of reassurances now.
From the capitals of the free nations congratulations poured into Washington. From Moscow came word of a one-hundred-ton spaceship to be launched in a few days, powered by a mixture of vodka and orange juice discovered by a bartender in Novorosk who was studying chemistry in night school.
The inner planets could be covered in a matter of minutes on a straight speed run, although to take off from one and land on the other meant considerable time used in acceleration and deceleration. The Planeteers were used to such speed. Hearing that it would take over three weeks to reach Earth had jarred them. "This piece of metal isn't a spaceship," Rip reminded them.
Even the spaceship wasn't the absolute proof that would be needed to overturn the earlier legal decision. Other and better proof was needed something that would stand up in any court in the Brotherhood. He hoped the spaceship would hold that proof. But Kennon's eagerness to find out what was inside the ancient spacer was tempered by hard practicality.
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