In the little desert town of Bootstrap stands a huge metal shed. In the shed men are building an object that can change the history of mankind. It is a Space Platform. Propelled to an orbit 4000 miles from Earth this platform will serve as the starting place for man’s exploration of mysterious outer space.

Space Platform tells the exciting story of a young man helping to build this first station. With scientific accuracy and imagination Murray Leinster, one of the world’s top science-fiction writers, describes the building and launching of the platform. Here is a fast-paced story of sabotage and murder directed against a project more secret and valuable than the atom bomb!

Cover illustration by Earle Bergey

THIS IS A GENUINE
POCKET BOOK
ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK 20, N. Y.
25¢

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

Transcriber’s Note

A hyperlinked table of contents was added before chapter 1.

In the following compound words, the hyphen was removed to conform to majority use in text:

exhaust-blastexhaust blast
jet-motorsjet motors
jet-planesjet planes
pilot-gyrospilot gyros
space-travelspace travel
wing-flapswing flaps

The following compounds, with and without a hyphen, were left as found because of equal prevalence of both forms: