"Carey Rockwell - Tom Corbett Space Cadet 01 - Stand By for Mars!" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rockwell Carey)

STAND BY FOK MARS!
By CAREY ROCKWELL
No 1 in the TOM CORBETT Space Cadet Adventure series.
Version 1.0

The Tom Corbett series:
STAND BY FOR MARS!, 1952
DANGER IN DEEP SPACE, 1953
ON THE TRAIL OF THE SPACE PIRATES, 1953
THE SPACE PIONEERS, 1953
THE REVOLT ON VENUS, 1954
TREACHERY IN OUTER SPACE, 1955
SABOTAGE IN SPACE, 1956
THE ROBOT ROCKET, 1956

WITH THIS FIRST BOOK the millions of young interplanetary space
enthusiasts who have been following Tom Corbett's adventures on the radio,
television and in newspaper cartoon strips will now have the opportunity to
have them available on their own home bookshelves to read and reread and
enjoy permanently. This is the first of a series which quite conceivable may
take the place among modern readers that the Tom Swift books held a
generation ago. In his day, Tom Swift took to the air, but the teenagers of
today are headed for the wide-open planetary spaces along with Tom Corbett,
Astro, and Roger Manning aboard the spaceship Polaris!
STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space
Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets, climaxed by a
tactical training cruise among the distant worlds of space and a crash landing
on Mars. Their desperate adventures on that planet of burning deserts and
endless canals end with a thrilling rescue and their triumphant return to the
Academy as seasoned veteran spacemen whose adventures will follow in
more hooks to come in this highly thrilling and imaginative series.



WILLY LEY Technical Adviser
GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York
COPYRIGHT, 1952, BY ROCKHILL RADIO
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

STAND BY FOR MARS!




CHAPTER 1

"Stand to, you rocket wash!"
A harsh, bull-throated roar thundered over the platform of the monorail
station at Space Academy and suddenly the lively chatter and laughter of
more than a hundred boys was stilled. Tumbling out of the gleaming monorail