Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

The Polaris Unit are attending a Space Academy lecture by Dr Dale on astrophysics. As part of this class they are assigned a laboratory experiment on a newly discovered ore. This rare ore is from Asteroid 2049 and has only been found one other place in the solar system and that is Asteroid 2046. During the experiment an accidental mixing of elements caused an explostion proving the rare ore to be a new source of enery, in other words fuel.

Roger feels responible for the accident and admits his quilt to Dr. Dale who doesn’t know whether to dock him with demerits or reward him. She decides to have him be her Astrogator on a mission to Asteroid 2049 to see how the mining of the ore is proceeding and to conduct experiments but disappear and can not be reached.

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Astro’s Trial in Space continues. After 4 hours of shore leave at Mars Port, Captain Strong and the Cadets blastoff from Mars for their return trip to the Academy. Cadet Astro is still listed as a passenger aboard the Polaris for observation to see if he does in fact have space fever. Cadet Harvey is filling in for Astro’s Power Deck duties and this has Astro a little on edge and he tells Captain Strong that he is going to resign from the Academy as soon as they return.

Once in outer space Cadet Roger Manning detects a huge sun spot forming on the sun. It is the largest any of them have ever seen at over 300,000 miles in diameter. The Polaris crew knows that this will send out a solar storm and that they need to head back to Mars as quick as possible.

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Also known as “Astro gets Space Fever.” Returning from a routine training mission, Cadet Astro looses consciousness and Cadet Tom Corbett has to take over the Power Deck and Cadet Roger Manning man’s the Command Deck for landing. After the landing Astro blames fatigue, and doesn’t believe he is sick until he drops some deadly acids while conducting a lab experiment. Tom manges to save. Dr Dale, who is the lab instructor for their lab experiments, fears Astro may have “Space Fever” which would give Astro a medical discharge from the Academy.

Dr Dale orders Astro to Sick Bay where he under goes several tests. The tests turn out to not be conclusive as to whether Astro has Space Fever or not. Meanwhile the Polaris is ordered on another training mission and Cadet George Harvey takes Astro’s place on a trip to Mars. At the last minute, before lift off, Astro comes aboard as a passenger/patient to test his reaction in Space.

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The crew of the Polaris are on another training mission with Major “Blastoff” Connell and are looking for caves on Pluto that will be large enough for setting up future colonies. While Tom and Major Connel look around the area around the Cruiser Polaris, Astro and Roger disobey orders and take the jet boat for a test ride. When Tom and Major Connel come back to the ship they find Astro and Roger gone. Finally Roger checks in by radio telling the Major that they have crashed.

Major Connell is so mad at the two cadets that he awards them 99 demerits each (100 gets you expelled). Roger tries to weasel out by telling the Major that they have found just the cave they came to Pluto for. Despite the seemingly good news Major Connell orders them to stay put and out of trouble.

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This the fifteenth episode in the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet radio show series is a lost episode. The title is known because Episode 16 is titled “Astro Lost in Ice Cave Part 2″. Following the show format and schedule of twice weekly broadcasts (part one on Tuesday and part two on Thursday) This episode is believed to have been broadcast on Tuesday 19 February 1952. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows turn up from a previously unknown source.

Broadcast Date: 52-02-19

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This the fourteenth episode in the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet radio show series and is a lost episode. The title is known because it is announced at the end of Episode 12 as the next show. Following the schedule of twice weekly broadcasts (part one on Tuesday and part two on Thursday) This episode is believed to have been broadcast on Thursday 14 February 1952. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows turn up from a previously unknown source.

Broadcast Date: 52-02-14

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This the thirteenth episode in the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet radio show series and is a lost episode. The title is known because it is announced at the end of Episode 12 as the next show. Following the schedule of twice weekly broadcasts (part one on Tuesday and part two on Thursday) It is believed to have been broadcast on Tuesday 12 February 1952. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows turn up from a previously unknown source.

Broadcast Date: 52-02-12

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Solar Guard Cadet’s Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are performing pre-flight checks on the Control Deck of the Rocket Cruiser Polaris when the Facsimile News Bulletin Receiver announces that ther are new clues about the Vanadium hijackers. Solar Guard Captain Steve Strong arrives on the control deck and announces that the new clue is that a small private rocket ship has been seen ferrying the Vanadium in from somewhere near the sun.

Captain Strong orders the Polaris to blast off and are hot on the trail of the Vanadium smugglers. Roger picks up the smugglers Rocket Scout Ship and Captain Strong orders Full Space Speed but just as they approach and order the ship to standby for a boarding party the ship takes off and they soon loose her because the Pirate Rocket Ship, with auxiliary rockets attached, is much faster than the Polaris.

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After some ignoring instructions Roger Manning manages to keep the Polaris on the hunt for the Space Pirates aboard the hijacked Space Academy Cruiser Pollacks. When Tom is about to divert them back to Titan so that Astro can be seen by a Doctor, Astro wakes up and insists on their continuing to search for the Pirates. Against his better judgement Tom concedes.

They find the Pollacks which have entered the asteroid belt and the Polaris remains undetected by hiding in front of Asteroid 149, which will confuse the Space Pirates radar if they are even looking. The pirates go into orbit around Asteroid 406 and launch a Jet Boat down to the surface of Asteroid 406. Tom believes like the Pirates of old, they are hiding their look on this island in space.

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While on a surprise training mission, the Polaris unit takes part in Space Maneuvers with Captain Strong and other Cadet Units. The Cadet units are to seek out and engage Captain Strong, who is aboard the Space Academy Cruiser Arturis, who will be trying to evade them. The Space Maneuvers will take place in an area of space where the Cadet Space Cruiser Pollacks was lost without a trace 3 months earlier and where Space Pirates have been reported.

The Polaris crew blast off to track down Captain Strong and using a Radiation Detector Mark 2 which sniffs out the rocket trail signature of ships who have passed the area of space they are testing. With the Sniffer the cadets find Captain Strong’s signature and another radiation pattern which they follow. They find a Space Academy Space Cruiser and think it is Captain Strong. But they are fired on and they realize it is the missing Space Cruiser Pollacks which must of been taken over by the Space Pirates. After the Polaris is hit damaging their main engines, Long Range Radio and their weapons systems, Tom and Roger fake a radio call to the Saturn Solar Guard base on Titan that scares the pirates away from the Polaris and allows the cadets to escape. Roger wants to chase after them but Tom overrules him because Astro had been injured and they head to Titan.

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