Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin

"Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet" by Harold L. Goodwin is a young adult science fiction novel published in 1952. Newly commissioned Planeteer Lieutenant Rip Foster faces his first major assignment: retrieve a valuable thorium asteroid from the asteroid belt and deliver it to Earth. Already dealing with inter-service tensions aboard his Space Force vessel, Foster must now contend with hostile agents from the Consolidation of Peoples Governments who want the asteroid for themselves. A Cold War-era space adventure of rivalry, duty, and high-stakes competition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland), 1914-1990
Title Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Foster_Rides_the_Gray_Planet
Reading Level Reading ease score: 85.4 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Science fiction
Subject Space flight -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 20147
Release Date
Last Update Jun 20, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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