In this latest exciting Space Cadet story 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.

       When the freebooters capture Tom and the Polaris, leaving Captain Connel and the other cadets on the dislodged satellite, hurling through space toward Alpha Centauri, its sun, the situation becomes desperate indeed.

       However, Tom manages to outwit the space bandits, recaptures the Polaris, and then to rescue his companions from a fiery death on the runaway satellite.

       More Tom Corbett stories are in work. Keep in touch with your bookseller for information regarding these thrilling stories.