Senator Wilfred Cogshell sat in his first-class seat on the Boeing airliner, en route from Amsterdam to New York. So far, the flight had been delayed, the takeoff rough, and the food only adequate. To make matters worse, the guy in the seat next to him was snoring loudly and reeked of stale cigarette smoke.
Senator Cogswell had spent the last two weeks meeting with representatives from five different European governments, and he was using the time to look over the many pages of notes he"d taken during the past two weeks.
He came across a notation which he"d made while speaking to the Russian Foreign Minister. The Foreign Minister had officially requested the United States government investigate a matter for them. The administrator of the Russian Space Program had heard several reports th
