 How does Ben feel about Mickey?
They're going to bring us the metals and minerals that we desperately need. And perhaps most important of all, they'll make other men think of the stars and look up at them and feel humility—for mankind needs humility." Mickey Cameron, sitting next to me, dug an elbow into my ribs. Just one, which I'd sent to Charlie Taggart. I remembered how, as a kid, I'd pestered him in the Long Island Spaceport, tagging after him like a puppy, and how he'd grown to like me until he became father, mother, and buddy all in one to me. Usually Mickey was the same whether in a furnace-hot engine room or a garden party, smiling, accepting whatever the world offered. The Universe was mighty big, but with two of us to face it together, it would be only half as big. Then Mickey strode up to us. And you, Laura, were with him. You and Mickey looked strangely at Charlie, and I realized that old Stardust was not a cadet's notion of the ideal spaceman. Charlie gulped helplessly, and Mickey said: "Still going to spend the weekend with us, aren't you, Ben?" "Ben," he called, "don't forget that offer. A moment later Mickey said, frowning, "What was he talking about, Ben? That's what most of you want, isn't it? Then your last words came back and jabbed me: "That's what Mickey used to want."
 Ben likes Mickey, they work well together.
 Ben thinks Mickey is a great guy, just not a great co-worker.  Ben likes Mickey, they work well together.  Ben does not like Mickey. He is relieved Mickey is not headed to space with him.  Ben thinks of Mickey as his own brother.