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hold a constant acceleration of 981.27 centimeters between initial and final
check
stations. Your take-off will be practically unobstructed, but you will have to
use the
utmost caution in landing upon Mars, as in order to avoid a weightless detour
and a loss
of thirty one minutes you must pass very close to both the Martian satellites.
To do so
safely you must pass the last meteorological station, Mi4, on schedule time
plus or
minus five seconds, at scheduled velocity plus or minus ten meters, with
exactly the
given negative acceleration of 981.27 centimeters, and exactly upon the pilot
ray Mi4
will have set for you."
"All x." Breckenridge studied his triplex chronometer intently, then
unplugged and
glanced around the control room, in various parts of which half a dozen
assistants were
loafing at their stations.
"Control and power check-out тАФ Hipe!" he barked. "Driving converters and
projectors!"
The first assistant scanned his meters narrowly as he swung a multi-point
switch
in a flashing arc. "Converter efficiency 100, projector reactivity 100; on
each of numbers
one to forty-five inclusive. All x."
"Dirigible projectors!"
Two more gleaming switches leaped from point to point. "Converter
efficiency
100, projector reactivity 100, dirigibility 100, on each of numbers one to
thirty-two,
inclusive, of upper band; and on each of numbers one to thirty-two, inclusive,
of lower
band. All x."
"Gyroscopes!"
"35,000. Drivers in equilibrium at ten degrees plus. All x."
"Upper lights and lookout plates!"
The second assistant was galvanized into activity, and upon a screen
before him
there appeared a view as though he were looking directly upward from the prow
of the
great vessel. The air above them was full of aircraft of all shapes and sizes,
and
occasionally the image of one of that flying horde flared into violet splendor
upon the
screen as it was caught in the mighty, roving beam of one of the twelve ultra-
light
projectors under test.
"Upper lights and lookout platesтАФall x," the second assistant reported,