Consternation and panic grip the world as a strange asteroid-sized object shoots earthward. Millions are relieved when the weird, glowing space phantom inexplicably goes into orbit about our world. Tom Swift, who has invented a machine which will establish a breathable atmosphere on the stark, airless moonlet, is asked to explore the interloper from space and to claim it for the United States. The epic voyage is accomplished in a gigantic atomic-powered spaceship, the Titan. Landing on the satellite Tom's friend Bud has nicknamed Little Luna, the Enterprises explorers must contend with a rival team of astronauts determined to steal the prize for their own country. How Tom protects the American claim, and uncovers an even greater prize of fantastic power, will keep the reader spellbound to the last page.

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Within weeks of putting his outpost in space into geosynchronous orbit, Tom got it into his mind to build a bigger station farther out in an orbit where it will be safe from space debris and where he can have much more room for everything he hopes to accomplish in space. A combination of attacks and events on him and his company make it look like a necessity and much sooner than he would have imagined. But what can he do to get around the logistical nightmare such an undertaking will bring? An elevator from the ground straight up into space has been a dream of writers and engineers for more than a century. Tom puts development of a space elevator on the front burner at Swift Enterprises. His only hope is that it is actually possible.

This hardbound edition of the 6th novel in the series brings back some of Tom's old friend: his Space Friends. Since their first interaction Tom has tried to get them to provide details about themselves so he can assist them in their mission to visit the Earth. Until he makes a surprise advancement in how he ""reads"" their symbol messages, he has had frustration after disappointment. Now that he has an understanding he is horrified to find that their ""masters"" have declared their mission a failure and will be recalling them, forever, in just a few short weeks. Now he races against time trying to develop both a vehicle and an environment capable of supporting them. Just when he thinks he has succeeded, disaster strikes. Not only is his new flying environment destroyed, but now the Masters insist the Space Friends won't be the ones coming for a visit, it will be them! Tom knows that can't be allowed and so he must work overtime to complete a new environment, be a diplomat and get ready for the visit.

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!

In this hardbound edition of the 13th novel in the New Tom Swift Invention Series, the young inventor is called down to Helium City to investigate strange noises that seem to be coming up from deep within the wells themselves. This should be impossible because there are several miles of near absolute zero liquid helium down there. Several probes not only fail to find anything, at least one is attacked and lost. So, Tom and his best friend, Bud Barclay, undertake the dangerous mission to go down into the well to find out what is really going on. When that trip turns to near disaster, it is time to call in reinforcements. This comes in the form of an old friend who not only knows the truth must be discovered, he believes that it must be stopped at any cost!