Captain Future 06 - Star Trail To Glory (Spring 1941) - Plot & Excerpts
It was the emblem of the Rocketeer, the highest rating any space pilot could attain. Jan Walker's four young companions — a Martian, a Venusian and two Mercurians — all wore the emblem. They had just passed their final examinations, and they were looking as eagerly as Walker through the windows of the speeding rocket-flier. Beneath was the forbidding, savage Cold Side of Mercury, an eternally dark landscape that never saw the Sun. Tumbled black mountains and frozen black plains seamed by vast cracks stretched in the bitter darkness under the stars."Aren't we almost there?" Jan Walker asked the lanky pilot."You wouldn't be so anxious to get to Suicide Station if you knew the trouble waiting for you there," the Saturnian grunted."We know a good many Rocketeers are killed in this test pilot work," Walker admitted earnestly. "But we're not afraid.""I'm not talking about the test piloting," declared the pilot. "That's tough enough, but that's just the ordinary risk for a Rocketeer.
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