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The voice counted: "Ten ... nine ... eight ... seven ... six ... five ... four ... three ... two ... one ... cut!" Joe pressed the master-key. The remnants of the solid-fuel take-off rockets let go. They flashed off into nothingness at unbelievable speed, consuming themselves as they went. There was again no weight. This time there was no resting. No eager gazing out the cabin ports.
But he did not know horses very well, and soon his anxiety for the welfare of Harley Kennan brought him to his feet. Harley was gentle and persuasive and all patience as he strove to make the colt take the leap. The urge of voice and rein was of the mildest; but the animal balked the take-off each time, and the hot thoroughbredness in its veins made it sweat and lather.
I came up here to see Paris, and I'm thirty minutes behind time now." The take-off of the five Spads was good, and in order. McGee noticed with considerable satisfaction that the flight commander knew his business, and the four planes under his direction followed his signaled orders with a precision that would have been creditable in any group of pilots. "Nice work!"
The tinny voice behind Joe now spoke precisely. Mike had listened to it while the work of take-off could be divided, so that Joe would not be distracted. Now Joe had to control everything at once. The roar of the pushpots outside the ship had long since lost the volume and timbre of normal atmosphere. Not much sound could be transmitted by the near-vacuum outside.
They controlled the gigantic wheels that would steer the Platform in its take-off, and later would swing it to receive the cargo rockets coming up from Earth. The pilot instrument worked! There was no vibration. In its steering apparatus the Platform was ready for space! Then the Chief yawned, and his eyes glazed as he stood in the huge gyro room.
Back over the 'drome he signaled with his Very light pistol for landing lights, his take-off having been too sudden to permit of thinking of ground flares. He circled the field, waiting for the lights. No response. He signaled again. Still no response. "Too much excitement, I guess," he mused.
The pilot gyros were the steering apparatus of the Space Platform. They had to be more than adequate. They had to be perfect! On the take-off alone, they were starkly necessary. The Platform couldn't hope to reach its orbit without them. Joe chipped away charred planks. He pulled off flame-eaten timbers.
There were many strange things happening lately, too, and the queer things kept on happening, and in ever-increasing numbers, during the second week of Kress' impossible absence in the stratosphere. Or was he there? Had he ever reached it? Had he Jeter and Eyer had noticed his utter gloom at the take-off merely, climbed out of sight of the Earth and then slanted down to a dive into the ocean?
That's the only take-off, that it has made us perhaps lazy, a wee bit languid lying like gods together, all careless of mankind." "Do you consider that we're languid?" that form of rejoinder she had jumped at for the sake of its pretty lightness. "Do you consider that we are careless of mankind? living as we do in the biggest crowd in the world, and running about always pursued and pursuing."
Waving to the group of soldiers and citizens gathered to witness the take-off of the new dreadnought of space, the three men entered the cramped operating compartment, strapped themselves into their seats, and were shot away. As usual the driving rockets were cut off well below the rim of the shaft, and the vessel rose in a long and graceful curve, invisible in the night.
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