Teen-Age Nurse Stories Edited by A. L. Furman Teen-Age Nurse Stories Teen-Age Nature Stories Edited by A. L. Furman Teen-Age Nature Stories The Teen-Age Library TEEN-AGE SUPER SCIENCE STORIES TEEN-AGE By RICHARD M. ELAM, Jr. Illustrated by Frank E. Vaughn Illustrated by Frank E. Vaughn Frank E. Vaughn Grosset & Dunlap Publishers NEW YORK NEW YORK Copyright © 1957 by Lantern Press, Inc. BY ARRANGEMENT WITH LANTERN PRESS, INC. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 57-8908 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CANADA BY GEORGE J. MCLEOD, LIMITED, TORONTO MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS THE FIRST MAN INTO SPACE Cadet Marshall Farnsworth woke from a nightmare of exploding novae and fouling rockets. After recovering from his fright, he laughed contemptuously at himself. “Here I was picked as the most stable of a group of two hundred cadets,” he thought, “and chosen to make man’s first trip into space, yet I’m shaking like a leaf.”