Presently the ship with Babs and Cochrane among its passengers took off to the stars.  It was a perfectly routine flight.  After all, star-travel was almost six months old.  It wasn’t a novelty any longer.

Operation Outer Space was old stuff.

THE END.

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Transcriber’s notes

The following typos have been corrected.  Hyphenation adjusted to reflect the most common usage in the text.

Page  Typo              Correction
7     expendible        expendable
8     calmy             calmly
8     Takeoff’s         Take-off’s
9     Takeoff           Take-off
10    night-club        nightclub
13    business-like     businesslike
21    takeoff           take-off
25    moonjeep          moon-jeep
25    The pyschiatrist  The psychiatrist
27    buisinesslike     businesslike
33    Appenines         Apennines
36    Arcturis          Arcturus
37    Why?               Why?”
39    tryin             trying
40    stockholders      stock-holders
41    possiblities      possibilities
56    Columbus’,        Columbus’
57    Three of four     Three or four
77    moonrocket        moon-rocket
86    epidomologist     epidemiologist
89    “Why?              “Why?”
91    wrily             wryly
93    chlorophyl        chlorophyll
95    panic-striken     panic-stricken
101   roup              croup
109   Cochrone          Cochrane
110   behind            behind besides
115   wrily             wryly
117   ’We’d have        “We’d have
118   back-ground       background
120   sun-light         sunlight
120   ’We’re in a       “We’re in a
125   virtures          virtues
125   normal            normal,
129   maintainance      maintenance
135   extraterrestrial  extra-terrestrial
136   collossus         colossus
137   facsimilie        facsimile
142   eveywhere         everywhere
143   star-ships        starships

The following differently hyphenated words have been left as they were, since there was no clearly predominant usage.

air-lock airlock food-stuff foodstuffs ice-caps icecaps moon-dust moondust re-broadcast rebroadcast roof-tops rooftops side-rail siderail space-ship spaceship tree-tops treetops ultra-violet ultraviolet

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