Losers in Space by John Barnes

Author:John Barnes [Barnes, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101567036
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2012-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

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DYING COULD SPOIL THE WHOLE TRIP

May 13, 2129. On Virgo, upbound Earth to Mars. 150 million kilometers from the sun, 137 million kilometers from Mars, 24 million kilometers from Earth.

GLISTERS AND STACK have finally finished all the tutorials about the antenna, outside space-rigging, and microgravity tools, and built the mock antenna. Next session, they’re going to hang mock mountings in Vacuum Cargo Section 1. They’re both incredibly proud as they show me all their work.

I make myself pay attention and ask questions. I extract three important points:

almost nothing about putting the antenna on is intuitive

almost everything about it is dangerous

the same thing Glisters didn’t want to say when we first talked about it is still true: if we screw it up, we’ll be ultra screwed.

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