"Perhaps you will not be quite so hasty with your men's lives in the future, Captain?" the doctor said. Professor Schultz was spinning dials. "No contact," the professor said, "No contact at all." That had been six months ago. Three more test rockets had been fired successfully before the urgent report came through from Alaskan Observation Post No. 4. A rocket was coming across the Pole. The strange rocket was tracked and escorted by atomic armed fighters all the way to the Rocket Testing Station where it cut its own motors and gently landed. In the center of a division.