The eight looked at one another, then slowly, apprehensively, entered the air lock.
Matt pushed the button closing the inner door. Henry pushed the button opening the outer door.
Eight bodies drifted in space.
Jake took over the freighter's controls.
"You sure you can find your way to Japetus?" Matt queried. "That moon is just a glorified piece of rock."
"No trouble at all. Remember when we landed there? I left our ship's radio on, sending out a carrier beam. We'll just follow it in on directional-automatic."
"Hey, Jake," said Henry. "How about the cargo? I've been looking over the cargo manifest, and all it says is five thousand carboys of oxygen."
"Oxygen?" said Matt, with rising concern. "When we were on Titan you told us this ship contained something very valuable."
"Yeah, Jake, what's the story?"
"Calm down, you two. This oxygen cargo is the most valuable stuff in the solar system right now."