Det var 8 personer på Envoy, det ursprungliga uppdraget (del ett, ch I):
Captain Michael Brant, commanding—pilot, astrogator, relief cook,
relief photographer, rocketry engineer;
Dr. Winifred Coburn Brant, forty-one, semantician, practical nurse,
stores officer, historian;
Mr. Francis X. Seeney, twenty-eight, executive officer, second pilot,
astrogator, astrophysicist, photographer;
Dr. Olga Kvalic Seeney, twenty-nine, cook, biochemist, hydroponicist;
Dr. Ward Smith, forty-five, physician and surgeon, biologist;
Dr. Mary Jane Lyle Smith, twenty-six, atomics engineer, electronics
and power technician;
Mr. Sergei Rimsky, thirty-five, electronics engineer, chemical
engineer, practical machinist and instrumentation man, cryologist;
Mrs. Eleanora Alvarez Rimsky, thirty-two, geologist and selenologist,
hydroponicist.
Tre av dem redovisas (del I, ch IV):
“It’s a nasty story. I got that much before my informant sobered up.
Dr. Ward Smith delivered his wife by Caesarean section—and she died on
the table. What he did next shows that he knew the score; with the
same scalpel he cut Captain Brant’s throat—then his own. Sorry, hon.”
Jill shivered. “I’m a nurse. I’m immune to such things.”
“You’re a liar and I love you for it. I was on police beat three
years, Jill; I never got hardened to it.”
“What happened to the others?”
“If we don’t break the bureaucrats loose from that log, we’ll never
know—and I am a starry-eyed newsboy who thinks we should. Secrecy
begets tyranny.”
Såvitt jag kan säga, nämns inte de övriga fem besättningsmedlemmarna ytterligare. Inte ett mycket tillfredsställande svar, men det är det. Om inte Heinlien svarade på någon annan plats är ödet för resten av Envoy s besättning okänt.