 Who invented the regenerative brain and organ process?
The tremendous national interest, the fact that he was the First One, had made them come around. He had traveled and he had returned and his voyage was very much like the voyages of the great mariners, from Columbus onward—long, dull periods of time passing, passing, and then the arrival. They held onto each other as if seeking mutual support, the thirty-three-year old woman and ten-year-old boy. Carlisle had said his position was analogous to Columbus', to Vasco De Gama's, to Preshoff's when the Russian returned from the Moon—but more so. They had feared for him, having read of the many launchings gone wrong even in continent-to-continent experimental flight.
 General Carlisle
 General Carlisle  Captain Davidson  Vasco De Gama  Corporal Berringer