The Adventures of RDR

The Ram Deflector Rocket, or RDR for short, has a very important mission as he flies high over the earth. His job is to move space junk—abandoned space vehicles, old satellites, and other stuff left behind far above the earth’s surface—in order to keep it from causing problems for people. He can push it farther into space, keep it away from working equipment, or even throw it toward an ocean down below!

One day, as RDR is doing his job, a meteor storm strikes! It hits the space shuttle flying nearby; some of the astronauts on board are injured, and the space shuttle is damaged. Unless they can get some help, they may burn up in earth’s atmosphere! Only RDR is close enough to save them—but if he isn’t careful, he could be destroyed in the process. Can he protect the astronauts and himself as well?

In this children’s book, a machine called the Ram Deflector Rocket works in space to keep both astronauts and those down below safe from harm.