Spaceship to Saturn

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Spaceship to Saturn is a juvenile science fiction novel, Book 10 in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in 1967 in the UK by Faber and in the US by Criterion Books.

Plot summary

Template:Spoiler The length of the trip to Saturn means that the crew will undergo 'hypothermia' for the duration of the flight, however a massive increase in meteor activity around Saturn threatens to cancel the mission as the computer on Earth will be unable to manoeuvre the craft at such long distances to avoid collisions. The solution - instantaneous telepathy; twins Gill and Gail maintain a telepathic carrier-wave even under hypothermia which can be modulated to carry telemetry. A landing is attempted on Titan but problems arise requiring the ship to be fly through the Cassini division, a narrow gap in the rings of Saturn...

External Links

Spaceship to Saturn page on the Hugh Walters website