When a new-style missile is about to be fired at Florida's Cape Canaveral, a small group of serious, weatherworn men examine it carefully. They learn how its parts fit together, what they are made of, what fuels its engines burn, where its "destruct" charge is placed and how it can be inactivated. The scientists who have nursed the missile to the testing stage watch the ceremony with some edginess; they know that the weathered men are the "undertakers" of the missile world. Their job: fishing aborted missiles from the bottom of the sea....
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