Publisher's Synopsis
Years after Damon Swift saved NASA's reputation as an exploratory service to The United States, Enterprises is approached for a repeat. Only, this time it is to be much more than the old Jupiter Skimmer's flight into the atmosphere of the gas giant. Now, they want to do flybys of all the major moons of both Jupiter and Saturn with appropriate photography and even some remote spectrography."They still don't understand all we can do! we can give them landings, and even better science." Tom complains as he plans to answer their request with a much broader program of exploration. One that does not rely on their, "Must have a crew of no fewer than five and no greater than nine." Their friend and political guardian, Peter Quintana., comes to the rescue with information this exploration comes in response to Tom's own horrible experiences with a u.N. subcommittee's roughshod handling of a probe project Tom completed just weeks earlier.He knows that such a voyage is far too long for a human crew to stand, and there will be little or no way to get replacements out to them given the space agency's limited budget.So, what can he do? Well, how about a small squad of non-humans?
