Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
PERFECT CONTROL
By RICHARD STOCKHAM
Illustrated by MEL HUNTER
Why can't you go home again after years in space? There had to be an answer ... could he find it in time, though?
itting at his desk, Colonel Halter brought the images on the telescreen into focus. Four booster tugs were fastening, like sky-barnacles, onto the hull of the ancient derelict, Alpha.