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One morning, two hours after dawn, the first manned rocket in the history of the world takes off
from the Tarooma Range, Australia. The three observers see on their scanning screens a quickly receding Earth. The rocket
is guided from the ground by remote control as they rise through the ozone layer, the stratosphere, the ionosphere, beyond
the air. They are to reach a height of fifteen hundred miles above the Earth and there learn what is to be learnt. For an
experiment is an operation designed to discover some unknown truth. It is also ... a risk.
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