"The Stygian emptiness is without form. The void between the spheres was a stellar desert, sparsely dotted with small oases consisting of frozen chunks of dust and ice. Through it was moving something of determination , a vehicle of purpose and will.
It was moving at just below the speed of light. At such velocity , it was not viewable.
Traveling as such, it was more an experiment in physics than a spacecraft. It was the pinnacle of man's technological achievement . A chalice in which the sum of his knowledge starting with the first crude chiseled hand tool to the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk, from the first rough loomed sail to fill with a virgin breeze, to the first man to hurtle heavenward on a pillar of flame."
