Lieutenant Rip Foster, fresh out of Planeteer training, is handed a startling secret order and nine Planeteers. Aboard the spaceship Scorpius he must endure the spacemen’s hazing, then find and seize a drifting asteroid of pure thorium and bring it home before the rival Connie powers can reach it. Goodwin first published the novel in 1952 under the pen name Blake Savage.
Fast, scientifically minded juvenile space adventure from the creator of the Rick Brant series. Download the free EPUB.