"You think it won't work, then?"
"Too damn complicated. A dozen units of time and mechanism have to mesh perfectly. The odds are against that happening. After all, you've got to remember, what we're attempting has never been done before."
"But if it did work—?"
"It would be a beauty."
"Better than your idea of a single booster?"
"If it worked—yes. The weight problem would be solved. Five men could ride the rocket. But—"
"Let's try it, Mike. Let's believe in our destiny."
"Okay—you're the boss. But destiny's a hard thing to lay out and analyze on a drawing board."
A man and his dream....
The radar equipment had failed. Burdened with the weight of exhausted booster sections, the rocket curved back into the clutches of gravity.