Slowly, he began to haul himself back toward the airlock hatch.

"Charles, please give the order to open the outer airlock hatch."

The Russian woman halted them in front of the airlock hatch.

He still held the last gun in his hand when the airlock hatch began to buzz and slowly opened up.

One man broke away from the line and moved toward the airlock hatches.

Still, she was trembling inside it as the airlock hatch swung open.

Enough explosive in it, however, to blast open an airlock hatch.

He saw her emerge from the upper airlock hatch before she could answer.

Twenty seconds later, and he was at the airlock hatch.

During the last 2 minutes of travel he waited behind the airlock hatch.