DONE WITHOUT EAGLES,
by Lester del ReyThe triangulator registered eight thousand miles up from Earth, though naturally we couldn’t see the old ball behind us. When they built the Kickapoo, they left out all windows and covered her with a new laboratory product to bounce back hard radiations, which is why I have a couple of normal kids instead of half-monsters; cosmic rays just love to play around with a man’s genes and cause mutations if they get a chance. Anyway, the spy instruments we used were worth a whole factory of portholes.
Captain Lee Rogers ran his eyes over the raised indicators when I signaled that we’d made one diameter, and found them all grooved where they should be. He pushed back his shoulders and tapped down for normal space acceleration before swinging around to face m
