Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet

Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet
by Blake Savage
Edition 1, (December 20, 2006)
Illustrated by E. Deane Cate
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

Foster, Lieutenant, R. I. P., blared the voice horn, and five minutes later Rip Foster was off into space on an assignment more exciting than any he had ever imagined. He could hardly believe his ears. Could a green young Planeteer, just through his training, possibly carry out orders like these? Sunny space, what a trick it would be!
From the moment Rip boards the space ship Scorpius there is a thrill a minute. He and his nine daring Planeteers must cope with the merciless hazing of the spacemen commanding the ship, and they must outwit the desperate Connies, who threaten to plunge all of space into war. There are a thousand dangers to be faced in high vacuum—and all of this while carrying out an assignment that will take every reader's breath away.

Major Barris Faced Rip and the New Planeteers

A thousand miles above earth's surface the great space platform sped from daylight into darkness. Once each two hours it circled the earth completely, spinning along through space like a mighty wheel of steel and plastic.