Wanderlust by Alan Edward Nourse — Read

Tad, like other young men, looked to the / spaceways for adventure. But George Barlow, like / other fathers, knew that disaster would end his --

Somehow George Barlow had sensed that something was wrong the moment his son drove into the barnyard that evening. He had been waiting impatiently for Tad's return all afternoon; the men needed those tractor bolts before they could do the mowing. But George had felt the uneasiness, quite suddenly, deep in his chest when he heard the boy's three-wheeler chugging up the rutted country road from town.