"Have you been in the observation dome?" asked Don.
"Yes. It's pierced, you know."
"Did the meteor hit the telescope?"
"No, why?"
"Because I'm going to have to get a sight on Venus Equilateral before we can do anything. We'll have to beam them something, but I don't know what right now."
"Can we discuss that over a dinner?" asked the captain. "I'm starved, and I think that the rest of this gang is also."
"You're a man after my own heart," laughed Channing. "The bunch out at the Station wouldn't believe me if I claimed to have done anything without drawing it up on a tablecloth."
"Now," said Channing over his coffee. "What have we in the way of electronic equipment?"
"One X-ray machine, a standard set of communicating equipment, one beam receiver with 'type machine for collecting stuff from your Station, and so on."