"Exploration Team" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Murray Leinster, originally published in the March 1956 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1956.
Illustration by Ed Emshwiller
Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
Leinster's "Juju" was the cover story of The Thrill Book in October 1919.
Leinster's "The Fifth-Dimensional Catapult" was the cover story in the January 1931 Astounding Stories.
Leinster's "Planet of Sand" was cover-featured on the February 1948 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.
Leinster's "The Strange Invasion" was the cover story on the April 1958 issue of Satellite Science Fiction. It was issued in book form later that year as War with the Gizmos.