Crossword-Solution: IPC 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Smith, Ph.D._ _Author of "Skylark of Space" and "Skylark Three"_ Spacehounds of IPC _A good many of us, who are now certain beyond a doubt that space travel will forever remain in the realm of the impossible, probably would, if a rocket that were shot to the moon, for instance, did arrive, and perhaps return to give proof of its safe arrival on our satellite, accept the phenomenon in a perfectly blasé, twentieth century manner.

Smith, that phenomenal writer of classic scientific fiction, seems to have become so thoroughly convinced of the advent of interplanetary travel that it is difficult for the reader to feel, after finishing "Spacehounds of IPC," that travel in the great spaces is not already an established fact.

Smith, Ph.D._ _Author of "Skylark of Space," and "Skylark Three"_ PART II Spacehounds of IPC _One of the most fascinating mysteries of the heavens is the comet.

More or less a fatalist by nature and an adventurer, of course, since no other type existed among the older spacehounds of the IPC, he was intensely interested in every new phase of their experience, and was no whit dismayed or frightened.

That vessel is the _Sirius_--the research laboratory of the IPC--the Inter-Planetary Corporation! It carries the greatest scientific minds of three of the inner planets, and it is loaded with pure poison or it wouldn't be here.