"Robert A. Heinlein - Farmer In The Sky" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

тАЬMaybe you are too young to remember it. He let himself be sealed into one of the robot freighters used
to jump thorium ore from the lunar minesтАФand busted up a ring of hijackers, a gang the newscasters
called the 'Ore Pirates.'тАЬ

I didn't say anything.

I wanted to see theMayflower from space, but they made us strap down before I could locate it. I got a
pretty good view of Supra-New-York though; theMayflower was in the 24-hour orbit the space station
rides in and we were closing almost directly on it when the word came to strap down.
 Captain DeLongPre was quite some pilot. He didn't fiddle around with jockeying his ship into the new
groove; he gave one long blast on the jet, the right time, the right amount, and the right direction. As it
says in the physics book, тАЬevery one-plane correction-of-orbit problem which can be solved at all, can
be solved with a single application of accelerationтАЭтАФprovided the pilot is good enough.

He was good enough. When we went weightless again, I looked over my shoulder out a port and there
was theMayflower, with the Sun gleaming on her, large as life and not very far away. There was the
softest sort of a correction bump and the loudspeaker sang out, тАЬContact completed. You may unstrap.тАЭ

I did and went to the port from which we could see theMayflower. It was easy to see why she could
never land; she had no airfoils of any sort, not even fins, and she was the wrong shapeтАФalmost spherical
except that one side came out to a conical point.

She looked much too smallтАФthen I realized that a little bulge that was sticking out past her edge at one
point was actually the bow of theIcarus, unloading on the far side. Then suddenly she was enormous and
the little flies on her were men in space suits.

One of them shot something at us and a line came snaking across. Before the knob on the end of it quite
reached us there was a bright purple brush discharge from the end of it and every hair on my head stood
straight up and my skin prickled. A couple of the women in the compartment squealed and I heard Miss
Andrews soothing them down and telling them that it was just the electrical potential adjusting between
the two ships. If she had told them it was a bolt of lightning she would have been just as correct, but I
don't suppose that would have soothed them.

I wasn't scared; any kid who had fooled around with radio or any sort of electronics would have
expected it.

The knob on the line clunked against the side of the ship and after a bit the little line was followed by a
heavier line and then they warped us together, slowly. TheMayflower came up until she filled the port.

After a bit my ears popped and the loudspeaker said, тАЬAll handsтАФprepare to disembark.тАЭ

Miss Andrews made us wait quite a while, then it was our deck's turn and we pulled ourselves along to
the deck we had come in by. Mrs. Tarbutton didn't come along; she and her husband were having some
sort of a discussion with Miss Andrews.

We went right straight out of our ship, through a jointed steel drum about ten feet long, and into the
Mayflower.

5. Captain Harkness