Hugh Walters was a British writer of science fiction for children, who is best remembered for creating the Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series, about the fictional United Nations Exploration Agency.  This ran to 20 volumes, some of which are presented here.These are strong stories, well written, aimed at anyone with an interest in the actual Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s.  Walters said  I believe a good SF story should: (1) entertain, (2) educate painlessly, and (3) inspire young people of today to be the scientists of tomorrow. The fiction is not so much science fiction (nearly all of the technology featured is based upon or extrapolated from real American or Russian space hardware), as economic fiction: the fiction is that any Space Agency could afford the likely cost of the proposed missions!The first novel, Blast Off at Woomera, is loosely based on the true fact that Britain and Australia did at one time co-operate in space research, and jointly funded a rocket base for satellite launches at Woomera in Australia, although the real project never progressed beyond unmanned flights.The early novels in this series deal with manned exploration of other planets in the Solar System.  Written for a youthful audience, they are nonetheless strongly grounded in the real science of the time. Once all the planets have been explored, Walters goes on to write more speculative novels concerning alien visits.  But, although much of the spaceflight technology featured is fictional, he never departs from science for the realms of fantasy.The main characters in this International series are two British astronauts, one American astronaut, and one Russian cosmonaut; respectively Chris Godfrey, Tony Hale, Morrey Kant, and Serge Smyslov.Initially, the focus is on Chris Godfrey, hence the overall series is named after him.  He is the continuing thread which binds the series together, as the only character to appear in every volume.The plot of the first novel, Blast Off at Woomera (published in 1957), was later used as the basis of a television serial, Target Luna (made by ABC Television for ITV in 1960), about a young boy who takes the place of a trained pilot, in Britain's first manned moonshot.Copyright Expired Publication The 25 year period of publisher's copyright under the UK's Copyright Acts 1956 to 1988 has expired for all items included in this collection: · Copyright Act 1956, s.15(2) :   www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1956/74/section/15 · Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s.15 :   www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/15