Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 202: what you’re looking at

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my wad, and that’s it. For a while there, jumping across, | didn’t know if I'd make it or not. Five hundred yards Is a long way to jump, with a thousand miles to fall if you miss.” “That’s O.K.,” Goodrich said. “You’ve done your share, you sit here and take it easy.” They swung around within radio range of the ground station again. “Thumbtack, this is Rubberneck,” Goodrich said. “Bertha condition Zebra. Apparently derelict. | say again, apparently derelict. We are now tied up to Bertha. There is an open hatch. Do you wish us to investigate the interior? Over.” There was the usual acknowledgment and pause. “Another committee meeting,” McKay said. Goodrich grunted. “Bartell here again,” the radio said. “How are those pressure suits doing, can you stand any more? Tell you what, Goodrich, you Know the situation, just use your own discretion. Get what you can, but don’t endanger the rocket or your crew.” “Rubberneck, Roger. We will investigate further and advise in fifteen minutes. Out” “We're getting valuable now,” McKay said judiciously. “O.K., boys,” Goodrich said. “Let’s go.” They bled off the air and opened the hatch. The rocket had taken up the rotation of the sphere, so that it appeared to hang nose-down under the slight pseudogravity of centrifugal force. Goodrich went first and McKay and Brown followed, hopping up from the hatch and catching the line from the sphere. They went hand over hand along the line and pulled themselves into the airlock. At most, Goodrich estimated they had fifteen minutes in the pressure suits to work with. He motioned McKay off in one direction along the corridor and pulled himself along a life line attached to the inner wall in the other direction, with Brown following him. The outer wall was corrugated, apparently a walkway, and there were doors set in the sidewalls. This ship was meant to CORniclooo SS CO