Ermakov something told to the chief of group of service, that nodded, asked again and on the move distributed orders to
workers crowding near it - to young children, possibly, just from a student's bench.
- We go home, - Krajuhin has told. - If tomorrow will finish a recharge of reactors, the day after tomorrow we will begin loading.
- Yes! - has recollected suddenly Bulls, taking seat in the car.
- I have absolutely forgotten. And "Boy"? Where it will ship? - Upward, - Krajuhin has answered. - "Boy" proputeshestvuet
through space astride "Hiuse". So...
- Mgm... - the beginnings was Bulls, but has stopped short and did not begin to ask more.
"AS ARGONAUTS In OLDEN TIME..." The report of Ljahova has been heard next day. In a spacious office of the chief of
the Seventh range have hardly taken places, except mezhplanetnikov, the person thirty workers raketodroma, engineers
from shipyards "Vejdady JU-i", representatives of the research and design establishments connected with Committee of
interplanetary messages. Poles, pale and smiling, spoke quickly, accurately, tapping for persuasiveness with a pencil on a
leather folder with diaries and notes.
According to the plan of test flight of "Hius" in twenty hours after start has accepted motionless in relation to the Sun position
and then, with constant acceleration in 9.7 metres per second for a second, has directed to a point of a meeting with Venus
bypassing the Sun. Having passed precisely half of distance and having reached speed four thousand kilometres per
second (revival among listeners). Poles has turned planetolet a mirror to a point of a meeting and has begun braking.
Through eight and a half days of "Hius" has orbited "Tsiolkovsky" - one of the Soviet artificial companions of Venus, and in
some hours has moored to it. Further, following the program of tests. Poles about one month maneuvered round Venus,
checking photoreactor work on all modes, has visited the artificial companions belonging to other states, has made landing
to Venitu - the natural companion of Venus, and at last has gone to a way back, having accepted aboard the sick engineer
from the Czech station.