title: The Stellar Story of Space Travel (History of Fun Stuff)
author:  Patricia Lakin 
description: Patricia Lakin, a former elementary school teacher and an award-winning author, has written more than fifty published works. Her books, both fiction and nonfiction, span multiple age groups&mdash;from toddlers to middle graders. Patricia lives in New York City with her husband, Lee Koenigsberg. They have two grown sons, Aaron and Benjahmin. When not reading, writing, or researching, she can be found traveling with Lee to far-off places in the world.
zlib_text: Sucker Bait
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By Isaac Asimov
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE ship Triple G flashed silently out of the nothingness of hyperspace and
  into the all-ness of space-time. It emerged into the glitter of the great
  star-cluster of Hercules.
  
  
  It poised gingerly in space, surrounded by suns and suns and suns, each
  centering a gravitational field that wrenched at the little bubble of metal.
  But the ships computers had done well and it had pin-pricked squarely into
  position. It was within a days journeyordinary spacedrive journeyof the
  Lagrange System.
  
  
  This fact had varying significance to the different men aboard ship. To the
  crew it was another days work and another days flight pay and then shore
  rest. The planet for which they were aiming was uninhabited but shore rest
  could be a pleasant interlude even on an asteroid. They did not trouble
  themselves concerning a possible difference of opinion among the passengers.
  
  
  The crew, in fact, were rather contemptuous of the passengers, a