Alan found Art Kandin where he expected to find him--in the Central Control Room, posting work assignments for the blastoff tomorrow.
But in the final few pages were computations--a trial orbit to Venus, several columns of blastoff figures, statistics on geographical distribution of the Venusian landmasses.
He spoke briefly with his friends and assistants in the control tower; then he checked his figures through one last time and requested blastoff clearance.
When blastoff time came for the Valhalla, Steve had not reported back from the Starmen's Enclave where all Spacers lived during in-port stays.
He checked with the central tower, was told how long till his blastoff clearance, and rapidly surveyed the fuel meters, the steering-jet response valves, the automatic pilot.
Alan snapped on his viewscreen and looked down at the field; the ground crew men were busily clearing the area as blastoff time approached.
Fold it up firmly, like a parachute--it makes a small package that can be carried up into orbit in a blastoff rocket with the best efficiency.
Near the end of May, the Bunch lined up in the shop, the ten blastoff drums they had made, including two spares.
Frank Nelsen was perched on his neatly packed blastoff drum in the back of one of the trucks, as big tires began to turn.
The doors of the passenger compartments had opened; likewise the blastoff drums had been ejected automatically, and were orbiting free.
And the hours, through the day and another night, dwindled toward blastoff time, at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning.
The padded passenger compartments were above the blastoff drum freight sections.
There wasn't much work to do during those last days, after the equipment had been inspected and approved, the initials of each man painted in red on his blastoff drum, and all the necessary documents put in order.
What are you going to do with a character nuts enough about space to armor up and stuff himself inside a blastoff drum?
It's a hard drive back, and blastoff can't be delayed.
A little more than two hours before the G-boat's blastoff time, and it couldn't wait for them.
Two hours earlier the two men had sat across a small table playing chess, with little indication there would be anything else to occupy their time before blastoff of the stubby gravity-boat.
He tensed now, not daring to relax for fear that the blastoff accelleration would slam him when he was unprepared.
During blastoff and accelleration they had watched Mars dwindle to a tiny red dot; then time seemed to stop altogether, and there was nothing to do but wait.
Very soon the blastoff and the accelleration would begin.
The captain cut off, and the blastoffbuzzer sounded.
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