On the TV screen, Celeste watched two brightly lit ships spinning in the sky--whether human spaceships or Phobos and Deimos come to help Earth rejoice, she couldn't tell.
The fewspaceships on Earth were reported to have blasted off, or be preparing to leave, with as many passengers as could be carried.
All day the spaceport rocked with the thunderous noise of stripped-down spaceships blasting off on their trial runs around the Moon.
They sat quietly and attentively as Strong gave them the details of the greatest race of spaceships in over a hundred years.
The thought of the riots that would ensue if the people tried to get aboard the spaceships without order made the hardened commander shudder.
Present were some of the wealthiest and most powerful shipping magnates in the entire Solar Alliance--men who controlled vast fleets of commercial spaceships and whose actions and decisions carried a great deal of weight.
There was no better place to drop out of sight than on Ganymede, for it was here that the deep spacers, gigantic spaceships that hauled supplies to the colonies of Alpha Centauri, Tara, and Roald made their last stop.
They had banded together to study our UFO reports because they were convinced that some of the UFO's that were being reported were interplanetary spaceships and the Lubbock series was one of these reports.
He knew that this meant the real UFO story was big and that it could be only one thing--interplanetary spaceships or earthly weapons--and his contacts denied they were earthly weapons.
With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source, the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular.
What they thought were spaceships were windshield reflections.
IV Spaceships from Main Base had little trouble coming to Earth with their cargoes of guns, propaganda, instructors, and whatever else the rebels on the planet needed.
The situation is so tense that a fight between two spaceships might plunge Earth into war.
Spaceships blasted through space between the inner planets in a matter of hours.
The commercial spaceshipscame only once every three months and left the same day.
And they also must have kept building their spaceships in the conventional rocket-form long after there was any need for it.
Of course, they couldn't have heard him at that distance, even if somebody had been standing beneath the spaceships to hear him.
And, of course, when we got close enough to see that it seemed to be surrounded by a ring of spaceships we had to enter the city itself and inquire about this phenomenon.
A dozen of their spaceships 'stitched' simultaneously from the inter-planar region into normal space in a nearly perfect englobement of the planet at a surprisingly uniform altitude of only a few thousand miles.
And since they have more spaceships and better weapons than we do, we would undoubtedly keep on losing this war, even if we could locate their home system, which we have not been able to do so far.
Why, we can make all the spaceships we want--out of nothing.
But I guess it'll be a few years before the miniaturization is worked out so that spaceships can carry it.
Five spaceships of alien design were clamped to the floor.
Through the wall of glass on his right he could see the cavern where the pirates' spaceships were anchored to the landing field.
A cluster of artificial structures was visible nearby, and several spaceships were parked in an informal array.
Followed by five spaceships protected by the radar bender, he sped undetected through the sphere of Space Command warships.
Ships were rising; two of our spaceships mounting.
During those succeeding months of the summer and autumn no other spaceships appeared from her: nor did our world investigate.
They can tell me the armament of men and weapons on most of the spaceshipswhich Earth will send against us.
They put it there with the idea that when we made spaceships and went to the Moon, sooner or later, we'd find the ship and enter it--like rabbits in a snare!
Thousands of years ago, they came to Earth in their spaceships when men were primitives living in caves.
People who traveled on spaceshipsonly as passengers never could understand why the Jump was invariably referred to as "terrible.
However, Jumping was safe enough, as long as the spaceships didn't stop.
He would have preferred none at all; actually, all spaceships could run themselves, for the controls were completely automatic.
Some of it had come all the way from Ogdensville, that transshipment center in the desert where spaceships landed.
Two spaceships to Mars, and I hear they're getting ready to put one on Venus.
He had forgotten what spaceshipswere like, but now memory revived briefly.
The uranium deposits out in the hills affected these watches," continued Astro, "the same way they affected the electronic instruments on the spaceshipscoming in to Roald.
Time and again in the past fifteen hours, the cadets had discovered what they thought to be a way through, only to find it too small for the massed flight of spaceships to maneuver safely.
When this project was first started, one of our astronomers thought he'd identified the swarm--it has a regular path of its own about the sun, though the orbit is so cockeyed that spaceships hardly ever even see the things.
The population of one-third of a planet, packed into spaceships for two years and more, would be appropriate subjects for sympathy at the best of times.
And if those three spaceships overhead did come from Walden--but why three?
Nine spaceships at one time--traveling in orbit around a primitive planet like Darth--a fleet of spaceships.
The arrogance, that was not far from cruelty, could take such pride in the sweep of spaceships embarking on missions of murder and plunder.
You can't imagine them building spaceships can you?
This was disappointing news for Strong, especially since the report included news of a second, third, and fourth strike by Wallace and Simms on spaceships near the asteroid belt.
And if he does ask for help, I'm going to answer him with the biggest fleet of spaceships he'll ever see in his life!
Instead of merely attacking spaceshipsand hijacking their cargoes, he now took over the vessel completely, sending the passengers and crews drifting helplessly in space in jet boats.
The only remaining tangible asset were the fleets of spaceships used less than a month before to ship the accumulators to the outer worlds, to bring them Sunward for recharging.
John Moore Mallory was imprisoned on one of the prison spaceships that plied through the Solar System.
Power to drive huge spaceships across the void, to turn the wheels of industry, to heat the domes on colder worlds.
The forest of spaceships thundered up, and up, and out of sight without untoward incident.
Los Angeles loved the idea and a forest of spaceships began to blossom in the desert.
It looked just like all the spaceships on television and in the picture magazines, but was more comfortable than you would expect.
That also accounts," added Haines, "for their limited number of spaceships and their need for secret operations.
That left only the Plutonian spaceships to worry about.
One end of it was reserved for flitterboats; three big spaceships sat on the other end, looking very noblesse oblige at the little flitterboats.
The staid and stolid minds that run the companies which design and build spaceships rarely let their minds run to fancy.
I thought of a mechanized America helpless before a few score of these spaceships .
Lo-as-ro, fired by the thought of establishing contact with people like himself, had borrowed spaceships manned by robots and crossed the void to Earth.
Recently spaceships from another planet in the same solar system had landed on the Orbiwah world.
Since the spaceships were able to move through Time into the past, Lo-as-ro hit on the idea of going back to the days when the Indian was still in control of most of America.
It's been pointed out before that we'll never reach the stars in spaceships limited to one light-speed.
A legal-minded official protested that Congressional appropriations had been for rocket-driven spaceships only, and the money appropriated could not be used for other than rockets.
If a few spaceships could be completed and take off before the solar system shattered, would the asteroid be shattered too?
The Enemy has spaceships and strange weapons and is absolutely implacable.
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