By Carey Rockwell
Willy Ley, Technical Adviser
Illustrated by Louis Glanzman
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(Frontispiece)
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 the 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 conceivably may take place among modern young readers that the Tom Swift books held a generation ago. In
his day Tom Swift took to the air, but the teen-agers 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! find 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 books to
come in this highly thrilling and imaginative series.
