Any private spaceport could be seized by terrorists and turned into a missile launch site.
Ironically, the company had built its spaceport barely three hundred kilometers from her birthplace on the island of Naxos.
But, Captain, what type of a spaceport does a Free Trader need?
Dane Thorson licked his own lips, tasting salt, and plodded back through the sand of the spaceportto the berth of the Solar Queen.
The spaceportwas a center for refueling and repair.
Haste was necessary because the ship was leaving from a spaceport fifty miles outside the city.
Although bumps in the spaceportroad encouraged a good deal of floating at the speed he was making, the Gelbchen vehicle was really designed for less intermittent wheel-to-ground contact.
Are you sure the people at the spaceport have not made some mistake?
A big crowd brought you out to the spaceport with Callahan.
When they landed, Winstead was the only passenger, either incoming or outgoing, to show up at the cargo shed designated as the spaceport administration building.
I suspect that a good, close look at the schedules down at the spaceport might show us a way.
Queen Bess had not yet poked her corona above the horizon when the aircar delivered him to a little island spaceport south of the city.
The clerk at the last spaceport did seem to think there had been a mistake," Winstead volunteered cautiously.
The traffic-control officer in the spaceport tower answered immediately.
Message fromspaceport control, sir," said the messenger.
Well, when I discovered that you had escaped, I knew you'd head for one of two places, the spaceport or here.
The jet car shuddered under the extra power and a moment later the spaceport lay spread before them.
We'll ditch this jet car about a mile from the spaceport and walk the rest of the way.
Tell thespaceport officer to prepare a welcoming party to blast off in ten minutes.
Every citizen of Roald, man, woman, and child, was at the spaceport to watch the giant cruiser Orion settle slowly to the ground.
The big cadet sat hunched over the steering wheel of the small jet car Strong had used a short time before, racing along the same smooth highway toward the spaceport on the other side of the hills.
He glanced toward the spaceport entrance and saw a stream of jet cars pouring into the field, heading for the Polaris.
The car roared through the gates of the spaceport and sped across the hard surface of the field.
I hung around the spaceport all night waiting for you to show up, and when you didn't, I came here.
They still had a long way to go to reach the spaceport that had been built on the other side of the hills.
Do you recall day before yesterday when your guided tour of Grand Central Spaceport got stalled because the aide blew a fuse?
I only read as far as where they were planning to blow up Grand Central Spaceport and all the guides in it.
The four tourists who went aboard at the spaceport with Hunter pulled out their U.
From the crest of the grade Hunter could look back at the flat, cemented field of the spaceport and the ragged teeth of the launching tubes rearing high on the Mojave.
Since a majority of the people who passed through the spaceport were executives or professionals, they used the autojets.
He was a carpenter and luckily, he had been working inside the barricades of an Army spaceport when the news came that the enemy had broken through the defense ring beyond Pluto.
Her father had died months before but his friends had used their influence to establish her as a secretary on the spaceport where it was assumed she would be comparatively safe.
There were about two thousand people--ten per cent of the planetary population--on the wide concrete promenade around the spaceport landing pit.
There were a couple of spaceport cops at the gate, in olive-green uniforms that looked as though they had been sprayed on, and steel helmets.
Well, why can't we store it in the spaceport area?
Hallstock got to the spaceport about half an hour ago," Dad said.
Then I saw Bish Ware, ahead, sitting on a sausage of wax, talking to one of the Spaceport Police.
They have him at the spaceport hospital; it'll be 2400 before they get all the poison sweated out of him.
Captain Kivelson," the loudspeaker said, "your son is alive and under skin-grafting treatment here at the spaceport hospital.
Joe and Tom Kivelson and Oscar Fujisawa slept at the Times Building, and after breakfast Dad called the spaceport hospital about Murell.
I gather the spaceport people wouldn't be too happy about giving the public the impression that their area is teeming with tread-snails, either.
He saw us and waved to us, and then suddenly the spaceport cop's face got as white as my shirt and he grabbed Bish by the arm.
At the same time, some workmen and a couple of spaceport cops had appeared, taken out a section of railing and put in a gate.
We do enough of that as it is, like playing down the tread-snail business for Bish Ware and the spaceport people, and never killing anybody except in a "local bar.
He didn't see them himself, but he talked with spaceport workmen who did.
I knew this spaceport would be big when I found out that the ship landed directly on the planet," he said, "but I never expected anything like this.
Broadway was empty until we came to the gateway to the spaceport area.
Harrison was vacationing and he viewed the emergency contact from Intersolar Spaceport with annoyance.
The main gate guards waved him in immediately and two cycle guards ran interference for him through the scores of video newsmen who lined the spaceport street.
Inside the gleaming crystal building, Connel and Tom were escorted by a Space Marine guard to the office of the spaceport commander, Captain Jim Arnold.
Spaceport traffic control to Connel," came a voice in reply over the audioceiver.
These freighters will deliver mail and supplies to out-of-the-way settlements that do not have a spaceport large enough to handle the giant freighters and have to depend on surface transport from the larger cities.
Suddenly Tom saw a spaceport attendant race up to the squad and hand a message to the sergeant in command of the squad.
He knew his disguise must be good indeed to fool this young girl, who met hundreds of people at the spaceport every day and could easily recognize a person for what he truly was.
When the jet car was brought up, Tom slipped behind the wheel, and with Connel seated beside him, he sent the sleek little vehicle roaring across the spaceport to the main administration building.
Connel glanced up at the teleceiver screen over his head that showed the spaceport below.
I'll have a ship made ready for you at the Academy spaceport any time you want to leave.
The incidents at the spaceportthat afternoon kept flashing through his mind.
Ben thought of Maggie: While other gals were dressing for their junior proms, I'd be in sloppy slacks down at the spaceport with Jacob.
While other gals were dressing for their junior proms, I'd be in sloppy slacks down at the spaceport with Jacob.
There are bars and restaurants near every spaceport so I go there.
Their spaceport touches the perimeter, and I know the exact spot where the ship stands.
Particularly when he realized that this girl could break the arm of any spaceport thug in the galaxy.
Bus line for spaceport leaving in twelve minutes--" He opened the letter when he had settled down in a comfortable morris chair in the airbus.
From the wall speakers a mild but penetrating voice began repeating, "Bus line for spaceport leaving in twelve minutes.
He signed the contract, smiling, and mailed it at a handy postal and telegraph window at the spaceport before boarding the spaceship.
Bill Loring and Al Mason stood near the entrance to the control tower of the Academy spaceport and watched the three cadets of the Polaris scramble into the giant rocket cruiser.
Loring's eyes followed the massive figure of Major Connel on the slidewalk as it swept across the spaceport field toward the Polaris.
Now I know why you've been hanging around the spaceport for the last two weeks.
He then opened the circuit to the teleceiver screen overhead and spoke to the spaceport control tower.
There was more communication between the Star Queen and the spaceport on Circe III, which the Star Queen would not make other contact with on this trip, and presently the big liner headed back to Altaira.
But presently the image of the spaceport health officer appeared on the Star Queen's screen.
Get your spaceport health officer on the vision-phone," ordered the Star Queen's skipper.
The ship was too large to be landed economically at an unimportant spaceport like Altaira.
But I doubt he managed to make a completely aseptic transfer from the room she lived in to the spaceport on Altaira.
She had tried to get a clearance from the Board and failed and that explained how she happened to be in the New Chicago spaceport bar when my own life had been in even more immediate danger .
The spaceport bar was filled with a fresh, washed-clean smell, as if all the winds of space had been blowing through it.
And in a crowded spaceport bar, where Martian Colonization Board clearances are at a terrific premium, you don't indulge in that kind of talk.
Then I descended from the tractor and headed for the steel-mesh gates of the spaceport on the run.
We were warned about this, by a Colonist who's on his way to the spaceport with one of the cylinders.
But resort to it I did, and as the day wore on I gravitated from the lakeside taverns toward the spaceport in slow stages, and twice in five hours reached the stage where I couldn't have passed the straight-line test.
The New Chicago Spaceport has and always will attract sightseers, because there's no other rocket launching site on Earth that can compare with it.
I can get to the spaceport in about fifteen minutes, if I drive between the aerators and turn right just before I get to the hospital.
I shut my eyes for a moment, thinking back, remembering the quarrel I'd had with my wife that morning, the quarrel I'd tried my best to forget over four straight whiskies at the spaceport bar late in the afternoon.
When he talked to us he was two-thirds of the way to the spaceport and if we'd told him to turn back then and bring the cylinder here the risks would have been too great.
They may be trying to dismantle another cylinder at the spaceport right now.
Then I'd have been in for the kind of questioning the blonde had mentioned--a kangaroo court interrogation before the Spaceport Police could get there.
I wonder what you'll think up for thespaceport police when they ask you?
He began warming up his tele-screen prior to asking the spaceport for observation of his approach.
After the hotel and the new clothes and the storage-rent at the spaceport for his ship, there was barely enough for even a bust of limited dimensions.
After depositing Charley in the ship, he bought clean clothes and registered for a room at the Spaceport Hotel.
From spaceport he had called the Space Patrol and talked where it would do some good.
Then the voice from the spaceport stopped, and Calhoun cut down the volume of the other.
On some worlds there is great integrity displayed by spaceport personnel and visitors.
A caravan of four cars, each bristling with blast weapons, swept along the wide highway which began here at the spaceport and stretched straight across level ground toward the city whose towers showed on the horizon.
We will try to seize thespaceport so you can be landed.
There was silence as men came from the spaceport building.
There was a sudden howl of a siren by thespaceport gate.
The ground car in which he rode had reached the spaceport gate.
Once he could look across flat fields and see the spaceport highway.
Then ground cars came rushing through the gate of the spaceport and flung themselves toward the wholly peaceful little Med Ship where it stood seeming to yearn toward the sky.
But if he'd known how the information was obtained, if he'd known it was guessed at by a discharged spaceport employee, and a paranoid personality, and a man who used a hazel twig or something similar.
The fighting ships of Kandar were allowed to use the planet's spaceport only for special reasons.
Up to now the entire affair had consumed not more than five minutes, from the appearance of a blip on a spaceport radar screen, to the beginning of a full-volume broadcast.
You'd better go back to the spaceport and take off in your yacht.
Suggested, that we travel a long distance, pick out a relatively small world, land and seize its spaceport and facilities and equip ourselves to bomb Mekin to extinction.
Chapter 6 The Isis approached Tralee from the night side, and at a time when the planet's spaceport faced the sun.
When it came into sight at the spaceport it was less than four thousand feet high and it went sweeping for the landing-grid at something over mach one.
He heard the threat issued and very soon thereafter an agitated voice announced to the people of Tralee that a pirate ship was in possession of the planet's spaceport and that it insisted upon broadcasting to the planet's people.
Uniformed men ran from the side of the spaceporttoward the ship, yelling.
The voice from the spaceport control building said briskly: "Demolition charges placed, sir.
In fractions of an additional minute it was precisely aground some fifty yards from the spaceport office.
Just at sunup where the spaceport stood, a voice growled down from outer space.
Only slowly did his eyes adapt and he became aware that he was standing in a city street, in the full glow of Procyon sunlight, and apparently outside the Lhari spaceport entirely.
But the sun overhead was brilliant and clear gold, the shadows sharp and violet on the spaceport floor.
And in the terrible Orion Spaceport wreck sixty years ago, doctors had found that blood plasma from humans could be used for wounded Lhari, and vice versa, though it wasn't safe to transfuse whole blood.
Bartol, find us the closest star with a planet--spaceport or not.
The Mentorians alone, among humans, could endure Lhari lights--he supposed the warning was for ordinary spaceport workers.
The Lhari spaceport in every system, by treaty, was Lhari territory.
The trouble is, if the Lhari spaceport wasn't on Earth, we wouldn't be on Earth either.
It was a Lhari spaceport that lay before him, to all appearances identical with the one on Earth: sloping glass ramps, tall colorless pylons, a skyscraper terminus crowded with men of all planets.
If it's a type Q star, that means dim illumination, and no spaceport mercury-vapor installations.
A robotcab was swooping over the spaceport in wild, crazy circles, dipping down, suddenly making a dart like an enraged wasp at a little nest of Lhari.
Tommy dragged Ringg into a sort of war dance of exuberant celebration, pointing at the flaring glow of the spaceport gates.
Behind the confines of the spaceport he could see the ridges of tall hills and unfamiliarly colored trees.
But it was alive; at the time Argo left the spaceport it had had ten senators and a larger handful of delegates in the Federation Congress.
They even said that the spaceport rights and privileges recently given to Jenga's empire would allow the Asiatics to build their own ship--tacitly implying that humanity should stay in two camps world without end.
The greater spaceport had been twelve years in building.
Beyond that-- Calhoun reasoned that the projector to make the induction cattle fence would be beyond Maya City, somewhere in the mountains the photograph in the spaceport building showed.
It was very probably a ship on schedule and the grid operator at the spaceport should have expected it.
Whoever's on duty at the spaceport stepped out for a moment, or dropped dead, or did something equally inconvenient.
Certainly for a spaceport landing-grid not to respond to calls for twelve hours running seemed ominous.
He guessed that either this town had been warned earlier than the spaceport city, or else they knew they had time to get in motion before the highways were filled with the cars from the west.
Calhoun glared at the image on the port screen and guided the telescope to the spaceport city--Maya City.
Plants like this were wilted at the base of the spaceport building, and on another place where there should have been sward.
In time it ought to touch ground in a spaceport with a gigantic, silvery landing-grid rising skyward all about it.
Calhoun trudged out of the spaceportand to the streets and buildings of the city proper.
Calhoun headed for the spaceport building with Murgatroyd ambling puzzledly at his side.
We weren't rich people who could go down to the spaceport and buy passage on the rocket ships, no questions asked, no bond required.
That that was why I'd come to the spaceport originally.
What would happen, I wondered, if I went to the spaceport and asked for tickets?
He'd not allow a few fanatics to do anything to prejudice thesespaceport negotiations.
Half an hour ago, we were shooting geeks out the windows, here; now we have them contained between the spaceport and the native-troops and labor barracks, and down the east side of the island to the farms.
I wonder if the idea back of that spaceport proposition isn't to get us concentrated at Keegark, where Orgzild could wipe us all out in one surprise blow," somebody down the table suggested.
Yes, this spaceport proposition of King Orgzild of Keegark looks like it, now doesn't it?
Port-Captain Leavitt has all the native labor at the airport and spaceport herded into a repair dock; he's keeping them covered with the forward 90-mm gun of the Northern Star.
We get a spaceportwe don't really need, and he gets all the business it'll bring to Keegark.
He hates and resents us so much that he's offered us a spaceport at his city.
What is this, a planetary parliament or a spaceport saloon?
The old maps placed the Zeggensburg spaceport there, but not a trace of that remained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spaceport" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
