Choose Your Own Adventure - The Third Planet from Altair
The reader, en route to the third planet from Altair to seek the source and meaning of extraterrestrial messages, is given choices to make determining the course of the spaceship and the survival of its crew.
(reissued as Message from Space; also released as Exploration Infinity)
Science fiction, Plot-your-own stories, Fiction in English, Juvenile fiction, collectionID:CYOA1
Edward Packard
Edward Packard (born February 16, 1931) is an American author, creator of the Choose Your Own Adventure book concept and author of more than 50 books in the series, as well as many other children’s books. He is also a lawyer, essayist, and poet. Born in Huntington, New York, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Packard_(writer))