"
"How much of what Kurt fed me is the truth?" Ross blurted out. "I mean
all that stuff about shooting back in time."
"All of it." The major said it so quietly that it carried complete
conviction.
"But why--how--?"
"You have us on a spot, Murdock. Because of your little expedition, we
have to tell you more now than we tell any of our men before the final
briefing. Listen, and then forget all of it except what applies to the
job at hand.
"The Reds shot up Sputnik and then Muttnik.... When--? Twenty-five years
ago. We got up our answers a little later. There were a couple of
spectacular crashes on the moon, then that space station that didn't
stay in orbit, after that--stalemate. In the past quarter century we've
had no voyages into space, nothing that was prophesied. Too many bugs,
too many costly failures. Finally we began to get hints of something
big, bigger than any football roaming the heavens.
"Any discovery in science comes about by steps. It can be traced back
through those steps by another scientist.
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