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"STAND BY TO REDUCE THRUST ON MAIN DRIVE ROCKETS...!"
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“Stand by to reduce thrust on main drive rockets!” The tall, broad-
“Aye, aye, Captain Strong,” replied a handsome curly-
“Control deck to power deck. Check in!”
“Power deck, aye,” a bull-
“Stand by rockets, Astro! We're coming in for a landing.”
“Standing by!”
The Solar Guard officer turned away from the telescanner and glanced quickly over the illuminated banks of indicators on the control panel. “Is our orbit to Space Academy clear?” he asked the cadet. “Have we been assigned a landing ramp?”
“I'll check topside, sir,” answered the cadet, turning back to the intercom. “Control deck to radar deck. Check in!”
“Radar bridge, aye,” drawled a lazy voice over the speaker.
“Are we cleared for landing, Roger?”
“Everything clear as glass ahead, Tom,” was the calm reply.
“We're steady on orbit and we touch down on ramp seven. Then”—the voice began to quicken with excitement—”three weeks' liberty coming up!”
The rumbling voice of the power-
“Plug your jets, you big Venusian ape man,” was the reply, “or I'll turn you inside out!”
“Yeah? You and what fleet of spaceships?”
“Just me, buster, with my bare hands!”
The Solar Guard officer on the control deck smiled at the young cadet beside him as the good-
“Guess they'll never learn, sir,” sighed the cadet.
“That's all right. It's when they stop battling that I'll start getting worried,” answered the officer. He turned back to the controls. “One hundred thousand feet from Earth's surface! Begin landing procedure!”
As Cadet Tom Corbett snapped orders into the intercom and his unit-
eBook SERIES: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Stand By For Mars! Danger In Deep Space On The Trail of the Space Pirates
The Space Pioneers The Revolt On Venus Treachery In Outer Space
Sabotage In Space The Robot Rocket
Science Fiction, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Academy, Action Sci-
Tom Corbett and his friends, Astro and Roger Manning, participate in the most daring undertaking in all space history. While on an experimental trip in the Polaris to test out some new equipment they and Captain Connel learn of a scheme of a pair of notorious space freebooters to steal the rich mineral resources of one of the planet Tara's small satellites. To foil the scheme the members of the Polaris crew themselves land on the satellite with the daring plan to blast it out of Tara's orbit and into Earth's orbit where its valuable mineral wealth may replenish Earth's shortages.
Danger In Deep Space
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet No.2
Lots Cave, Inc.
English
51,262 Words + Original Illustrations
EM1100002
Carey Rockwell