 What is the future of the Pandora?
They were something more—and something less—they were, in short, humanity's hopes for survival! [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, September 1961. The Starship Pandora creaked and groaned as her landing pads settled unevenly in the mucky surface of the ugly world outside. Earth couldn't turn out enough starmen in the schools, so promising kids were being shipped out for training as cadets on their twelfth birthday. One, at the front, was stuttering into life, and Gwayne dashed for it as the exit port slid back. "I want that thing to live—and you're detailed to save it and revive it.
 It will stay on the planet forever.
 It will stay on the planet forever.  It will return to Earth to report back on what they found.  It will rescue Hennessy’s crew and the exploring party.  It will remain in space.