Chapter 14. _Rockets Away!_

The next lap of their journey was uneventful. Saturn, the next outward planet from the Sun, and the second largest, would present the same problem as Jupiter. This world, famous for its mysterious rings, was about 71,000 miles in diameter and had a large family of satellites--nine in all. The Sun-tap station would be on one of these, Burl thought. Saturn was also almost as far out from Jupiter as Jupiter itself had been from the Sun. This meant that the trip would be as long for the _Magellan_ as the distance they …