Excerpt from: Project Deep Space First Encounter a Science fiction story by H. Preston
						On a mining research project near the planet Saturn, a drone ship from the space craft ITC Excavator became separated from its mother ship and flew through the ring that surrounds the planet.  When  the ship was recovered, it was covered with an unknown substance.  They used containers made of a special material to get the substance off of the ship and brought a sample aboard the Excavator for testing.  The testing of the material was in progress while they were returning to Earth.  When the ship was about 300,000 miles from Saturn, the material exploded, causing severe damage to the ship, killing five people and injuring twenty-five others. .
		Michel Strohm, the commander of the Excavator decided to resign from the company because he knew it was his fault -- people had died and there was extesive damage to the ship, because he had ordered the material to be brought aboard the ship.  There was a meeting of the corporate board of directors and Strohm was invited to attend.  He had written his letter of resignation, which he had with him when he met the board. Ted Franklin, the chairman of the board and principal shareholder of ITC informed Strohm that he had monitored the actions of the crew during the recovery of the drone and felt he had taken the correct actions.  He had also observed that when the explosion occurred the substance was merely leaving the ship -- heading back to Saturn -- at a speed of five times the speed of light! He asked Strohm to volunteer to lead a crew of astronauts and scientists to return to  Saturn and figure out a way to harness the power of that substance.  He made it the company's top project and asigned a large amount of company assets and highly skilled personnel to insure the project's success. Strohm and his crew succeeded in taming the substance, which was used to power the largest spacecraft ever built on a trip to another planetary system.
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