 Which best describes the relationship between Keech and Houlihan?
A one-time Air Force officer, he has turned to fantasy in his lighter moments, to bring us such brightly sparkling little gems as this. houlihan's equation by ... But its small, mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny—on Earth. Without this coefficient to give us control, we would have lacked a workable equation when we set about putting the first moon rocket around those extraordinary engines of ours, which were still in the undeveloped blueprint stage. Perhaps you had better take my word for it that without this equation—correctly stated, mind you—mankind would be well advised not to make a first trip to the moon. And all this talk of coefficients and equations sits strangely, you might say, upon the tongue of a man named Kevin Francis Houlihan.
 They have a tenuously constructed relationship based on trust necessitated by the situation
 Keech doesn't prefer interacting with scientists but he knows he can trust Houlihan  Houlihan is resentful for being taken away from time in his own lab but feels indebted to Keech  They have a tenuously constructed relationship based on trust necessitated by the situation  There is a lot of mutual trust and respect between scientists