- Operation Columbus
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Operation Columbus Author(s) Hugh Walters Country United Kingdom Language English Series Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Faber Publication date 1959 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 191 ISBN 0571062695 Dewey Decimal 823.91 Preceded by The Domes of Pico Followed by Moon Base One Operation Columbus is a juvenile science fiction novel, the third in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1959, in the US by Criterion Books in 1960 under the title First on the Moon, and in the Netherlands by Prisma Juniores as 'Wedloop naar de Maan' 1963.
Plot summary
Both America and Russia plan manned missions to the Moon to examine the wreckage of the structures destroyed in The Domes of Pico. The American astronaut, Morrison Kant, breaks his leg shortly before takeoff, so Chris Godfrey steps in. Both spacecraft arrive at the same time. Unlike Chris Godfrey, the Russian pilot, Serge Smyslov, is unable to leave his Lunar Rover vehicle and both head for the wrecked domes, leading to a tense standoff...
The book predates the first use of a Lunar Rover by 11 years.
External links
U.N.E.X.A. series Blast Off at Woomera (1957) · The Domes of Pico (1958) · Operation Columbus (1959) · Moon Base One (1960) · Expedition Venus (1962) · Destination Mars (1963) · Terror by Satellite (1964) · Journey to Jupiter (1965) · Mission to Mercury (1965) · Spaceship to Saturn (1967) · The Mohole Mystery (1968) · Nearly Neptune (1968) · First Contact? (1971) · Passage to Pluto (1973) · Tony Hale, Space Detective (1973) · Murder on Mars (1975) · The Caves of Drach (1978) · The Last Disaster (1978) · The Blue Aura (1979) · The Dark Triangle (1979) · The Glass Men (unpublished)Boy Astronaut Boy Astronaut (1977) · First Family on the Moon (1979) · School on the Moon (1981)Categories:- 1959 novels
- 1950s science fiction novels
- Children's science fiction novels
- Moon in fiction
- Works by Hugh Walters
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