On the fringes of space, danger awaits!Lieutenant Dan Prescott, cocky test pilot, disobeys orders and takes his experimental aircraft higher than anyone has ever flown before--but nobody knows what can happen to a man at these altitudes.Well beyond radio contact with the earth, he's bombarded by cosmic rays and a storm of space dust.He loses control of the aircraft and crashes to the ground; hours later, search teams find the wreckage but there's no sign of pilot Prescott.Then come the strange, gruesome reports of a mysterious string of vampire-like killings--an indestructible, dust-covered monster who drinks the blood of his victims!What is the awful secret of this murderous creature?What horrifying fate has befallen the First Man Into Space?