[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories January 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] The three crew members of the Ad Astra looked at one another, grinning weakly, in the whispering silence after the motors had kicked off. This was the culminating point of a half-century of preparation; behind them was the satellite launching station--ahead of them, a faint red dot, was Mars.…
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