THE PLANET STRAPPERS started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. THE PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted-a start on the road to the stars-but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There! In THE PLANET STRAPPERS, Ray Gallun has written a story of the Day After Tomorrow-a story of what it will be like for the men who cross the space frontier-a story that some of us will be living someday....