 What was the mission of Eckert and Templin?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951. Templin tightened his safety belt and lay back on the acceleration bunk. Eckert was just a dull, formless blur opposite him. Eckert had fiddled with the controls and changed it to sunshine, then to a weird mixture of hail amid the brassy, golden sunlight. Eckert and he had been chosen to go to Tunpesh and investigate. But a staff anthropologist must have been routinely assigned to Tunpesh to furnish data and reports. Warm breezes rustled through Eckert's graying hair and tugged gently at his tunic. He looked at the slim, dwindling shape that was the rocket, and was suddenly, acutely aware that he and Templin would be stranded for six months on a foreign and very possibly dangerous planet.
 To find out what happened to Pendleton
 To locate Pendleton  To find out what happened to Pendleton  To get to know the primitive way of life.  To try to cover up what happened to Pendleton