Takeoff

From the first page of the Pennant first paperback: "Tomorrow the moon - Out in the remote California desert Mike Novak was sitting on a powder keg. He was working on the biggest thing since the atom bomb - and they were out to stop him! Here is a wildly exciting story torn from tomorrow's headlines - the story of man's first triumphant step into outer space. It is an unforgettable, nerve-clenching novel of the first moon-rocket and the men who dared to build it."