He laid his hands on the hatch as if about to rise.

He sat up on the hatch covers rubbing sleep from his eyes.

Seven pointed to herself, then carefully drew a number "7" on the hatch.

One of the crew knocked on the hatch and came in.

She used her weight to push down on the hatch and pulled one leg through, then the other.

So they had expected that someone outside would bang on the hatch and cry out: "Open up!"

But he got one hand on the hatch and pulled himself into the airlock.

A navy officer began to pound on the hatch so it would be opened from inside.

He went and sat down doggedly on the main hatch.

"We waited on the hatch to set everything right," he said.