“Tom, this is wonderful news!” the admiral exclaimed. “I’ll have our Navy ships routed back there immediately-and I intend to fly out myself as soon as I can board a plane 1”
As Tom waited for the task force to arrive, his thoughts turned to new inventions to tackle. But he could not anticipate what would happen to him in his Triphibian Atomicar.
Within hours, the task force arrived at the site and recovery operations got under way. The missile was hoisted to the surface by cables attached to submarines, then hauled aboard the tender. Tom himself supervised the job of extracting the sealed data section.
“You’ve done a tremendous job, Tom Swift, and our whole country will be proud of you!” Admiral Walter declared before sailing home.
Tom grinned as he prepared to descend the ladder over the side. “Let me know about life on Jupiter, sir. I may go there myself one of these days!”
THE END