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Speed--and more speed--go into the mammoth project of
completing Tom Swift’s astounding new moonship, which is to carry Tom and his
crew to Earth’s barren satellite on invisible beams of force. It is a race against
time and the stakes are high: a massive plague has struck the planet of Tom’s
mysterious space friends, an unknown disease which could threaten life on our
world as well. From the first test flight to the day the mighty Challenger soars moonward, the desperate
project is beset with sinister perils. A ruthless foreign faction is readying
their own rocket, intent on seizing the diseased animal specimens sent to the
moon for study, hoping to produce invincible germ warfare weaponry. The
fast-moving, gripping drama in outer space brings Tom to the greatest thrill of
his young life as he enters his planet friends’ spacecraft and sets eyes on its
eerie occupants!