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The _Brainchild_ lifted from Antarctica at exactly 2100 hours, Greenwich time. For three days the officers and men of the ship had worked as though they were the robots instead of their passenger -- or cargo, depending on your point of view.
Supplies were loaded, and the great engine-generators checked and rechecked. The ship was ready to go less than two hours before take-off time.