Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 187: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The human crew now took over, devising new tasks for the machines. McKay, moving clumsily without the accustomed restraint of gravity, and feeling an inward queasiness which became acute when he moved his eyes suddenly, took sights on the stars and on landmarks on the Earth below. Brown pushed switches which activated small flywheels to turn the ship. Goodrich, the captain, performed further calculations on the navigators figures, and from these prepared another tape which he fed into the autopilot. By the time this was done, it was a few minutes less than an hour after take-off time, and the ship was halfway around the globe from its point of departure. At the proper moment, the captain tripped the firing Switch. The engine caught with a whoosh, slamming the men back into their couches, and the autopilot nibbled precisely at the tape, clucking abstractedly to itself. After seventeen seconds it shut off the engine again. The rocket was now ina roughly circular orbit, a little over five thousand miles from the Earth’s center, one thousand miles above its surface. The other thing in the sky was now only five hundred miles above them; but the men in the rocketship did not Know this, and might not have cared if they had known. They were busy with a more urgent problem. The weightlessness, sudden heavy acceleration, and weightlessness again had been too much for Brown. He was suddenly and violently sick, groping blindly for a container. Goodrich thrust it against the man’s face. He reached for another container and followed suit. After a while, the convulsions began to wear themselves out. The men wiped at their streaming eyes and slimy faces. Goodrich saw that they had almost circled the Earth, their takeoff point was coming up over the horizon. There was a tiny squeaking in his headphones. CORniclooo SS (SO)