Project Gutenberg 2006-05-10 Public domain in the USA. 117 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Operation: Outer Space Reading ease score: 76.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, L. N. Yaddanapudi, Geoffrey Kidd, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Operation: Outer Space" by Murray Leinster is a science fiction novel written in the mid-20th century. The narrative follows Jed Cochrane, a television producer, who is unexpectedly called to participate in a journey to the moon as part of a peculiar assignment. Cochrane grapples with feelings of unimportance and the disillusionment that comes from being just another cog in a vast corporate machinery while also confronting the wonders and dangers of space travel. The opening of the book presents Cochrane's cynical reflections as he travels to the space-port, setting the stage for his internal struggles and the societal pressures faced in a densely populated world. He receives orders to accompany a team to the moon for a project spearheaded by a psychiatrist, Dr. William Holden, who seeks to aid a troubled scientist, Dabney. Through Cochrane’s journey, we witness his sense of humiliation mixed with curiosity about the vastness of space. As he and his team embark on their mission, the narrative hints at the exploration of deeper themes regarding hope, ambition, and human connections amidst the backdrop of cutting-edge technology and the cosmic unknown. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Interstellar travel -- Fiction Television programs -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 405118 404957 2024-10-08T07:32:02.033287 2023-09-08T09:14:47.361388 text/html text/html 408035 2019-10-03T11:01:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 149566 2019-10-03T11:03:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 226597 2024-10-08T07:32:10.867240 application/epub+zip 230690 2024-10-08T07:32:05.325313 application/epub+zip 216836 2024-10-08T07:32:04.003298 application/epub+zip 422745 2024-10-08T07:32:15.126226 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 391027 2024-10-08T07:32:09.999240 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 328633 2022-09-08T16:06:13.786362 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 370541 370431 2024-10-08T07:32:01.033372 2023-09-08T09:14:46.563364 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 370274 2019-10-03T11:01:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 140714 2019-10-03T11:03:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20537 2024-10-08T07:32:15.260203 application/rdf+xml 13723 2024-10-08T07:32:04.576264 image/jpeg 3732 2024-10-08T07:32:04.287330 image/jpeg 217265 2024-10-08T07:32:02.067293 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia