Wreckers of the Star Patrol by Malcolm Jameson

IRONICALLY enough, he found an asteroid to lie dead ahead. They would crash on it inevitably unless he could work some miracle--and his fagged brain had ran out of what it takes to make miracles. The planetoid was one of the Scrappos-Scrappo IV, to be precise. It was a graveyard for ships, a handy junk pile for the disposition of derelicts so obsolete as to be not worth the cost of breaking up. From his calculations, it looked to Hartwell very much as if the weary _Wanderer_ was about to add her rusty bones to the pile.

He scratched his head, then sent for his newly appointed civilian staff.