Space Tug [Paperback]

Murray Leinster (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1966

It was Tuesday on one side of the Date Line and Monday on the other.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Shasta (January 1, 1966)
• ASIN: B00005WX7Y
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,671,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Space Adventure!, December 23, 2008

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Norman Strojny "retired tech-person" (western desert of Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Space Tug (Hardcover)

"Space Tug" is a very good space adventure. Joe Kenmore is assigned to the new "Space Tug" that will be a help in construction on the space station. Well, adventure happens. Someone starts 'shooting' at the space station. After that is sort of solved, an expedition to Earth's moon is started on its way to the moon. Then ... Well, read it yourself. Written for juveniles, this story holds up for adults, too.

I really enjoyed reading this book, back in the 1960s. It, still, has not been out dated. Very good Science fiction.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Almost but not quite, July 20, 2011

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Jorge Frid (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Space Tug (Paperback)

At first the book is thrilling but is a Jules Verne's copy"cat". On the other hand who'd think that America will be peaceful while attacking his first out-of-Earth satellite? Do you think that an artificial satellite is at 4,000 miles above the Earth? It's at least at 22,000 miles above us. Other things maybe are or not truth or just Sci-Fi. But no matter if this book was written about 60 years ago. ML must had known some answers that were not written by JV.

Do you know what was JV's mistake in his book "From the Earth to the Moon"?

He failed about 150 Miles from where he did the launch. Cape Canaveral is about this distance. And the best thing is that scientists think that it was because the angle of Earth at his time.