A stone-age man, fleeing from three starving wolves, raced to a tall tree and with the agility of an ape, scaled the tree, pulling himself up powerfully, one hand reaching above the other.
So it has been since man's earliest days and so it will be forever. Man's reaching out will never end. When, at the dawn of this century, he conquered the air with power-driven aircraft, a feat quite beyond the comprehension of a mediaeval man, who could have foreseen that little more than a bare half-century later an astronaut would step down on to the surface of the moon?
And now where? Will boys and girls at school now one day see on a television screen the landing of another dauntless astronaut on another planet in some other galaxy? Who knows? But one thing is certain. In the infinite time of the future, man will never stop reaching out, and discovering new planets.
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A collection of non-fiction articles about space exploration and science fiction short stories, interspersed with the comic strip 'Jason January, Space Cadet', written for a young audience.
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Table of Contents
Man Reaches Out.
6
First Flight to the Edge of Space.
8
Rough Justice.
11
They called it the 'Grape Fruit'.
19
Space Cadet.
20
The Moon Camera.
46
Great Balls of Fire.
48
Games of Peril.
50
Under Pressure.
57
Space Cadet.
66
Crisis in Space.
86
Time Travellers.
88
Planet of Terror.
91
Space Cadet.
99
Eye in Orbit.
117
Dome of Doom.
119
In Deadly Danger.
125
War Games in Space.
127
Project Venus.
128
Edition Notes
This edition was printed in Czechoslovakia. It also states it was first published in Great Britain by Octopus Books Ltd for W H Smith & Son Ltd, and is copyrighted 1980 by Marts Press Ltd. The final line is a code '50 471/2".
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Page 6,
added by Ben Hurkett.
Introduction - "Man Reaches Out"
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