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Brother Worlds by Raymond Z. Gallun:
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"ONE of the questions mankind is going to have to answer soon is — what makes a good spaceman? Must he be of the stuff of test-pilots, of laboratory geniuses, of rough hewn Forty-Niners of the galactic reaches?

Probably there will be need and room, for all three — as well as for another sort of human entirely, the dreamer who seems to contribute nothing to society until it becomes time for him to put his dream on the line and, perhaps, risk his life to bring it to reality.

Such a man was Leif Ericsson, such was Columbus, Magellan, Captain Scott and Mungo Park, such were all that small crew of adventurers who first rolled back the mists from the map of our world. And such a man is Skip Hanlon, poker and mouth-organ player extraordinary, whose inability to forget the death of a twin brother sends him far from the usual routes of his kind!"

('Brother Worlds' by Raymond Z. Gallun)

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