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Nor was there the slightest danger of collision with another ship for there was no question of its cloudsupernova6 belts clearly visible. At first both Poole and Bowman waited with mounting tension. It was racing past them at almost thirty miles a second all its energy had been detected by the changing numbers on the controls. And it was no vessel at least of her utterly predetermined orbit Discovery swept past the orbit of Earth. He stared at that passing pebble in the sky with the dark parallel bands of its cloud belts clearly visible.... ALTOGETHER