Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Captain van Tromp decided that it was time to throw a tantrum.
Explain yourself, Captain. Until we came along he had never laid eyes on a man. He thinks like a Martian, feels like a Martian. Any coincidence of names is regretted.
This is a work of fiction. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. For information address: G. Visit our website at www. The first human expedition to Mars was selected on the theory that the greatest danger to man was man himself.
At that time, eight Terran years after the founding of the first human colony on Luna, an interplanetary trip made by humans had to be made in free-fall orbits—from Terra to Mars, two hundred-fifty-eight Terran days, the same for return, plus four hundred fifty-five days waiting at Mars while the planets crawled back into positions for the return orbit.
Only by refueling at a space station could the Envoy make the trip. Once at Mars she might return—if she did not crash, if water could be found to fill her reaction tanks, if a thousand things did not go wrong. Eight humans, crowded together for almost three Terran years, had better get along much better than humans usually did. An all-male crew was vetoed as unhealthy and unstable. Four married couples was considered optimum, if necessary specialties could be found in such combination. The University of Edinburgh, prime contractor, sub-contracted crew selection to the Institute for Social Studies.
After discarding volunteers useless through age, health, mentality, training, or temperament, the Institute had nine thousand likely candidates. There were hundreds of combinations of eight volunteers possessing these skills; there turned up three such combinations of married couples—but in all three cases the psycho-dynamicists who evaluated factors for compatibility threw up their hands in horror. The prime contractor suggested lowering the compatibility figure-of-merit; the Institute offered to return its one dollar fee.
The machines continued to review data changing through deaths, withdrawals, new volunteers. Captain Michael Brant, M. Reserve, pilot and veteran at thirty of the Moon run, had an inside track at the Institute, someone who looked up for him names of single female volunteers who might with him complete a crew, then paired his name with these to run problems through the machines to determine whether a combination would be acceptable.
This resulted in his jetting to Australia and proposing marriage to Doctor Winifred Coburn, a spinster nine years his senior. Winifred Coburn Brant, forty-one, semantician, practical nurse, stores officer, historian; Mr. Science Fiction. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Telegram Whatsapp.
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