A tale of the future

In 1965 Sir William Morgan, rocket research scientist, launched a man-carrying rocket from New Mexico. But the rocket crashed on to the town of Las Vegas and killed a number of people. As a result the Anglo-American Space Research Committee temporarily closed the proving grounds. Shortly after hearing this news, Jet Morgan, son of Sir William and pilot of the Morgan super-stratoship, was visited in his London flat by an Australian who made him an astounding offer....