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Updated: May 2, 2025
They were reverberations of the rocket-motors themselves, transmitted to the fabric of the ship. The ship's steering-rockets were correcting the course of the vessel and yes, there was another surge of power nudging it to a more correct line of flight to meet the space platform coming up from behind. The platform went around the world six times a day, four thousand miles out.
Normally one sleeps because he's tired. We had trouble sleeping until our muscles got so weak we tired anyhow!" Another drone came in and was unloaded. And another and another. But the last of them wasn't only unloaded. Haney took over the Platform's control board and grinning to himself sent faint, especially-tuned short wave impulses to the steering-rockets of the drone.
After eight such bounces they'd stay in the air, and the stubby fins would give them a sort of gliding angle and controllability, while the landing rockets would let them down to solid ground. Or so it was hoped. Meanwhile they headed out instead of in toward Earth. They went out on their steering-rockets only, using the liquid fuel that had not been needed for course correction on the way out.
"Chief," said Joe softly into his helmet-mike, as if by speaking softly he could keep from being overheard, "get close enough to me to see what I do, and do it too. I can't tell you more. Whoever's running this rocket might know English." There was a flaring of vapor in space. The Chief was using his steering-rockets to draw near.
It turned about in emptiness. Its steering-rockets spouted smoke. It began to cancel out its velocity away from the Platform, and to swim slowly and very carefully toward it. Making actual contact with the platform was not a matter for instruments and calculations. It had to be done directly by hand, as it were.
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