ten minutes to eight
`` If you so much as smell that grub , I 'll come down and feed you into the reactant chamber ! '' Tom smiled at Astro and turned to the ladder leading up from the power deck . Passing through the control deck on the way to the radar bridge , he glanced at the clock . It was ten minutes to eight . `` Only one thing I 'm worried about , Corbett , '' said Roger through a mouthful of sandwich . `` What 's that ? '' asked Tom .