ROCKET JOCKEY
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It wasn't his ship, or his job, or his problem ... but suddenly Jerry Blaine was behind the controls of Earth's Last Hope and blasting off for the galaxy's most savage space race. His brother Dick had planned to be the rocket jockey in the family, but a freak accident had taken him out of the running, leaving only Jerry to carry on.
Now, speeding from planet to planet, moon to moon, wrestling with dangerous unknown forces of space and attempting to outwit the invidious Martian contenders, Jerry realized that what was at stake was more than a racing championship for Earth...what was at stake was his life!
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This was published in 1952, well before actual spaceflight began.
It's set about 200 years after spaceflight began but the pilots and ships
don't have computers and the engines sound more like steam engines than actual rockets.
The author put more effort than usual to get the descriptions of the planets and their relative distances correct.
I think large parts of this book could have been used to describe a boat race around the Pacific.
So it's kind of interesting historically but don't work too hard to find a copy.
