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    Shipwreck in the Sky
    Shipwreck in the Sky
    Shipwreck in the Sky
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    Shipwreck in the Sky

    By Eando Binder

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Shipwreck in the Sky - Eando Binder

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Shipwreck in the Sky, by Eando Binder

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      Title: Shipwreck in the Sky

      Author: Eando Binder

      Release Date: June 15, 2009 [EBook #29133]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHIPWRECK IN THE SKY ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      There is a warm feeling about welcoming back into the pages of a science fiction magazine the work of a writer who is a legend in the genre. So, here's Binder and a neatly wrapped-up package of a folktale of the future.

      shipwreck

      in

      the

      sky

      by ... Eando Binder

      The flight into space that made Pilot-Capt. Dan Barstow famous.

      The flight was listed at GHQ as Project Songbird. It was sponsored by the Space Medicine Labs of the U.S. Air Force. And its pilot was Captain Dan Barstow.

      A hand-picked man, Dan Barstow, chosen for the AF's most important project of the year because he and his VX-3 had already broken all previous records set by hordes of V-2s, Navy Aerobees and anything else that flew the skyways.

      Dan Barstow, first man to cross the sea of air and sight open, unlimited space. Pioneer flight to infinity. He grinned and hummed to himself as he settled down for the long jaunt. Too busy to be either thrilled or scared he considered the thirty-seven instruments he'd have to read, the twice that many records to keep, and the miles of camera film to run. He had

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