THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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outside atmosphere. They had three real space crewmen, named Roddell,
Youtsko and O'Keefe, who had been in Storisende jail as a result of a
riotous binge when their ship had lifted out, six months before. The
rest of the company?Jerry Rivas, Anse Dawes, Charley Gatworth, Mohammed
Matsui, and four other engineers, Ludvyckson, Gomez, Karanja and
Retief?rated as ordinary spacemen for the trip, and would do most of the
exploration work after landing.

They got the controls put up; they would work in either position. The
engines were lifted in and placed. Conn finished the robo-pilot and the
astrogational computers and saw them installed. The air-and-water
recycling system went in. The collapsium armor went on. In the
news-screen, they[Pg 104] saw the spaceship at Storisende still far from
half finished, with swarms of heavy-duty lifters and contragravity
machiners around it, and a set of landing-stands, on which the second
ship was to be built, in the process of construction.