Through Space to Mars
- ISBN-10
- 1606641735
- ISBN-13
- 9781606641736
- Series
- Through Space to Mars
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-06
- Publisher
- Aegypan
- Author
- Roy Rockwood
Description
Two of the highest-ranking students of the Universal Electrical and Chemical College, Jack Darrow and Mark Sampson, are world travelers -- for they already have trips to the North Pole, South Pole, and the Center of the Earth beneath their belts Although their college research work is going well, a mysterious summons calls them back to the side of their mentor, Professor Henderson. Boys, he says, you must excuse me for not saying why I sent for you. My guest, Mr. Roumann, has laid a strange proposition before me. I hardly know what to think. Mr. Roumann has proposed a wonderful trip to -- To planet Mars bursts out Mr. Roumann. We are going to make the most wonderful journey on record. A trip through space Such an opportunity for reaching it, and proving whether or not there is life there, will not occur again for many years. It is now but thirty-five millions of miles away from us. Soon it will begin to recede -- at the rate of twenty-eight millions of miles a year Roy Rockwood's Through Space to Mars, written in the early years of the 20th century, remains a refreshing, optimistic space adventure for young-at-heart readers even a century later.
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