The high wind blows

the long version

Adam Cade, astronomy enthusiast, has won a chance to watch the launch of a satellite that will study the solar wind. Adam has barely arrived at Mt Dauntless Launch Station when he hears about a terrorist group, God's Soldiers, who believe that space exploration is bad. Adam is soon involved in a struggle that leads all the way to the Kennedy Space Centre. Can he help? Or will the space shuttle Discovery and its crew be destroyed? Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.