Operation Columbus
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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.
[edit] 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 arm shortly before take-off, 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 stand-off...
The book pre-dates the first use of a Lunar Rover by 11 years.
| Preceded by The Domes of Pico |
Operation Columbus 1959 |
Succeeded by Moon Base One |
