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?The pressurizing equipment which maintains a comfortable temperature throughout the ship is installed between the walls, and much else which would require more time to explain than we have just now. Entrance doors leading into the various walls in all parts of the ship make access easy. Each craft #/ries several mechanics who, working in shifts, are on constant duty to inspect and check all parts. Therefore, it is seldom that any defect remains undiscovered to the point of giving real trouble. ? In this pilot room | could look up or out or down, in whatever direction | turned my head. As Firkon finished speaking, the young man reached out and touched a button. Immediately, further openings like portholes began to appear in what | had thought was solid wall. Then both pilots took their places in small seats on opposite sides of the room. | felt a slight movement and the ship seemed to nose upward. My heart beat violently as | wondered if perhaps they planned to take me to their planet. The hope was short-lived. It seemed but a moment before the ship stopped and again hovered. IImuth smiled up at me and said, ?We are now about fifty thousand miles from your Earth.? Firkon motioned me to come to one of the portholes as he said, ?Perhaps you would like to see what space really looks like.? | soon forgot my disappointment as | looked out. | was amazed to see that the background of space is totally dark. Yet there were manifestations taking place all around us, as though billions upon billions of fireflies were flickering everywhere, moving in all directions, as fireflies do. However, these were of many colors, a gigantic celestial fireworks display that was beautiful to the point of being awesome. As | exclaimed at this vast splendor, Firkon suggested that | now look back to Earth and see what our own little globe looks like from that distance out. | did. And to my surprise, our planet was giving off a white light, very similar to that from the Moon, only not so pure as moonlight in a clear night on Earth. The white glow surrounding the Earth?s body was hazy, and its size was comparable to the Sun as we watch this body rise above the horizon in the early morning. There were no identifying markings whatsoever to be seen on our planet. It looked merely like a large ball of light beneath us. From here, one could never have guessed that it was swarming with myriad forms of life. At the fifty thousand mile altitude, the pilots had set their robot control and IImuth joined us, explaining to me, ?Each pilot room has a robot. These, working singly or together, can fully govern the course of the ship, as well as warn us of any approaching danger.? The male pilot remained at his post and Ilmuth remarked, in explanation, ?One pilot in each control room must always be on duty.? She then asked if | would like to have a closer look at the pilot?s instruments. At one side of each seat there was a small instrument which looked something like a tube set in the floor and standing high enough so that the pilot could easily look into it. ?This,? Ilmuth explained, ?is connected with the telescope you