In this exciting Space Cadet story the hero and his friends 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 the Major 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 the hero and the Polaris, leaving the Major and the other cadets on the dislodged satellite, hurling through space toward Alpha Centauri, its sun, the situation becomes desperate indeed.
However, our hero manages to outwit the space bandits, recaptures the Polaris, and then to rescue his companions from a fiery death on the runaway satellite.
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