Check out

 https://www.goodreads.com/series/43661-perry-rhodan---english

Read them in german though since its a german sc fi, great stuff I reckon

The story begins in 1971. During the first human Moon landing by US Space Force Major Perry Rhodan and his crew, they discover a marooned extraterrestrial space ship from the fictional planet Arkon, located in the (real) M13 cluster. Appropriating the Arkonide technology, they proceed to unify Terra and carve out a place for humanity in the galaxy and the cosmos. Two of the accomplishments that enable them to do so are positronic brains and starship drives for near-instantaneous hyperspatial translation. 

And what comes out of it is just pure imagination. They have an elite unit of little mutants who have a good sense of humor and resolve almost all situations….