COMBAT MISSION!Joe Kenmore's mission was as dangerous as it sounded simple:"DELIVER SUPPLIES AND ATOMIC WEAPONS TO THE SPACE PLATFORM. THEN PREPARE FOR MAN'S FIRST EXPEDITION TO THE MOON."Joe had helped launch the first Space Platform—that initial rung in man's ladder to the stars. But the enemies who had ruthlessly tried to destroy the space station before it left Earth were still at work. They were plotting to stop Joe's mission!Cover painting by Robert Schulz
Joe Kenmore's mission was as dangerous as it sounded simple:
"DELIVER SUPPLIES AND ATOMIC WEAPONS TO THE SPACE PLATFORM. THEN PREPARE FOR MAN'S FIRST EXPEDITION TO THE MOON."
"DELIVER SUPPLIES AND ATOMIC WEAPONS TO THE SPACE PLATFORM. THEN PREPARE FOR MAN'S FIRST EXPEDITION TO THE MOON."
Joe had helped launch the first Space Platform—that initial rung in man's ladder to the stars. But the enemies who had ruthlessly tried to destroy the space station before it left Earth were still at work. They were plotting to stop Joe's mission!
Cover painting by Robert Schulz
Transcriber's NoteA hyperlinked Table of Contents has been added.HyphensHyphens have been removed from the following words to conform to the majority use in text.PageWord86brain-storm123loud-speakerThe following words have been left in both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms because of equal prevalence of both forms:half-wayhalfwaypay-loadpayloadrocket-liftrocketliftsun-lampssunlampshand-holdhandholdpin-pointspinpoints"overall" and "over-all" have been left as such since the writers are different (The narrator and a character).TyposThe following typos have been corrected:PageTypoCorrection14runingrunning15levellever78AdorningAdoring128thiry-ninethirty-nine132shedShed
A hyperlinked Table of Contents has been added.
Hyphens have been removed from the following words to conform to the majority use in text.
PageWord86brain-storm123loud-speaker
The following words have been left in both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms because of equal prevalence of both forms:
half-wayhalfwaypay-loadpayloadrocket-liftrocketliftsun-lampssunlampshand-holdhandholdpin-pointspinpoints
"overall" and "over-all" have been left as such since the writers are different (The narrator and a character).
The following typos have been corrected:
PageTypoCorrection14runingrunning15levellever78AdorningAdoring128thiry-ninethirty-nine132shedShed