 in time and space and in future, in co-operation with Street and Smith, publishers of astounding science fiction bring you dimension X, a star in black velocity swirling by. Inside the case, tiny finite specks of humanity control the tremendous power that impels her so relentlessly toward the other galaxies. Who were these men? What man's fantastic need and desire that caused them to abandon Mother Earth? Adventure to the ends of the universe. Captain Hollis! What is it, Stone? Magnetic storm dead ahead, sir. Any aperture? About a hundred mile gap between elements, sir, but shifting rapidly. Switch on the radar screen, let's have a look. Yes, sir. Say, don't be pigheaded about this. There's a magnetic storm. Are you going to list the lives of all of us just so you can hang your hat on some lousy interplanetary lipid? We know this means a lot to you. Sure, you can be Fleet Admiral if you beat those Asiatic ships to Venus. Value my life just as much as any man aboard this craft. I'll get back to your post. I'll have your court, Marshal. Okay. Okay what, Mr. Stone? Okay, sir. Speak to being a ship's doctor. You're good at that. I'll navigate this dish. Really, Captain? Holy, I'd hate to pile up on some little asteroid, especially when a simple thing like changing the lightest deflection would throw us a million miles off at this speed. Get back on the vector. Hips would have landed on Venus and claimed the whole blasted planet. We're in a race, Charles. Well, I suppose they do claim Venus. There's nothing but rocks and jungle anyway. It isn't that. It's the idea of someone beating it. You know, Lewis, I always get a little bit jittery when men are willing to die with symbols. What is it, Lester? Lester, the last that's storm has shifted their arms. Starboard Cyclotron. Aye, sir. You can't make it in time, Lewis. Listen to that radar bounce. Shut up. Condition read. Passing your space shield. Do you make it? We've got to make it. Oh, it's one of those asteroids besides the ship. Well, you shut up. Doesn't sound good, Lewis. Another five seconds. After that, you'll fall toward the planet. Nobody's going to die. Those asianic ships will be along this way. We can radio to them when they get in range. Earth this way. I'm nothing but a human meteor, Charles. When I hit the Earth's atmosphere, I'll burn like a match. Several thousand miles apart. We should be able to talk for another 20 minutes or so at the speed we're falling away from each other. I was thinking about stones. He was right in a different way. Each of us has his own life to look back on. Huh? They come a dime a dozen. There's nothing to be commander of the whole fleet counting on it. Stevie, too, in his own little way. His daddy went out with a ship together as good many years. You never told me what you really think of me. Whether or not you've envied my success. I'd like to know now. We've nothing to do but talk anyway. I have never envied anything except the fact that you're falling back to Earth, Lewis. I don't know what the devil you're babbling about. I'll skip it. Now, now look here. There's one thing. I had a wife on Jupiter. And I had a wife on things. It has made me swell. What's he babbling about? He didn't know about any of their mothers. Blood of a wife. My wife is beautiful. Understand? Add some trouble, Helen. We won't talk. Stevie, where is he? He's a little guy, isn't he? What do you mean, Helen? You've always seen him. I've been a good father. Nobody can ever say I haven't been a good father. Certainly not you, not after what happened. Don't get this through. I've given him everything a boy should have. He taught him to hunt and take care of himself. I don't want him to be soft. What is it, Lewis? What is there? Sissies are soft. Cryed was soft. Now don't start that business again, will you? But time makes you understand. I understand what you're trying to do. You're like all of them. They want to make you a woman. They want to drain you of your manhood so they can control you. Manipulate you. Now you're talking bellywashing. Let's not build that wall between us. You're shipping out tonight. You ship. Having lunch with the admiral this afternoon. This is an important thing, Helen. This is the most important thing that ever happened to me. More important than going for a swim. If you don't get a chance of being fleet commander every day, you can go for a swim anytime. I know. Hello, honey. Ever since I was a cadet, I've been pointing toward this job. It's big. If I'm a success, you can name your own ticket. Lake House up in Connecticut. Schoford. The final school for Steve. I want you to do it. Now don't be unreasonable. Don't you be unemotional. What? I said don't be unemotional. I don't understand. No, I don't suppose you ever will. Let that quarrel. Why do we always act almost time now? I want to. Goodbye, Helen. Say goodbye to the boy. The same nightmare. Come on. Like this. If you're going to... Leftist, it really is. Off with the media swarms. The others are scattered all over the universe by now. I've had it right for us. I'll be in the orbit soon. It's good to hear your voice, sir. We can reach one another. I should think you'd hate and despise me. What? I could have saved us all by changing course. You did what you believed. Not long, I'm afraid. At least not me. That's a terrible thing. If I told you I'd never put my arms around the boy and let him know how much I loved it, it was nothing but a running away from my own feelings. I had everything I really wanted. All I had to do was reach out my hand. There was Helen, Stevie, pleasures. And I turned my back and looked at the stars. When they came to me filled with their love and their warmth, I ran. I fled to the stars and to the ends of the universe. Other things like that happened to us, Lester. We were going to be divorced. That lucky, Lester. Not many get a second chance. I can see you now, Lester. Mother Earth. Big in a few minutes at this rate. And starting now. I'll burn in a minute. I'll be scattered like ashes all across the land. Funny, that's a useful act, isn't it? To help other things grow? No, I don't talk. A good man, I hope they rescue you. What happened? Maybe I am after all. Fuck it. He just got a bit twisted. It's alright, that's all. It wasn't your fault. No, no. Almost released. Did you ever get out of a cold shower and feel like a new man? Breakfast in a new day? A beautiful old- I suppose no way we do is to be quite different. Long ago, when you were a tiny, tiny baby, your father and I used to come down here and swim at night. It was the first curl he ever loved. And then somehow, something happened. He got frightened or something and we sort of lost each other. Come here, Steve. What's wrong? I just feel a little chill. Perhaps we'd better be getting back to Mr. Benton. Okay, Mom. Make a wish, Doc. Make a wish. That's the company in cooperation with Stephen Smith, publishers of the magazine Astounding Science Friction. Today, Dimension X has presented Flight of Scope, written for radio by George Lefford, from the story by Ray Bradbury. The pictures on the cat were George Satter as the captain, Leon Johnny as Lefford and John Alexander as the captain.