Spacemens Luck

 

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

From Part 1 we learned that Dr. Dale and Roger Manning have disappeared while investigating a rare ore from Asteroid 2049 which was a Polaris Unit class room labortory assignment. During the experiment an accidental mixing of elements caused an explosion proving the ore to be a new source of fuel.

Roger and Dr. Dale are sent to Asteroid 2049 to conduct experiments but disappear and can not be reached. Captain Strong, Tom and Astro depart for Asteroid 2049 investigate. They find Rocket Scout 9J and board the Rocket Scout but there is no one aboard. We last heard that Tom and Astro are trapped aboard Rocket Scout 9J and manage to escape before it blows up.

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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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Below is a list of classic space travel movies listed by the decades. For this original publication I am including classic space travel movies from the 1950′ and 1960′. I will over time in later publications add additional decades. In later revisions I will update this list to include classic space travel movies produced as early as the first decade in the 1900′s and even movies right up to 2010 and (over time) beyond.

Once I add a decade in this list I believe I have a fairly comprehensive list, but, if you see a movie you know about is missing from the list, please use the comment system to tell me and the other visitors about it. This list is a work in progress because I am constantly finding some new gem I either had forgot about or never new of to begin with.

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Space Patrol agents have collected evidence against a Saturn crime syndicate and have it on a microfilm, but syndicate operatives manage to over power Space Patrol undercover agent Frazier who is on his way to Neptune and take the microfilm.

Commander and Chief of the Space Patrol Buzz Corey decides to handle the investigation of the theft of the evidence himself.

Meanwhile the crooks who took the microfilm evidence, Steve Chura and Wally Hunley are en route to Neptune. They realize they are low on supplies and stop outside Lowell City Mars at an old Martian prospectors place for some food and water. The prospector Marty Noonan is an easy going and obliging person who provides the supplies. While packing the supplies aboard their ship Wally Hunley unknowingly drops the microfilm.

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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 Saturn, Commander Corey and Cadet Happy become aware of Hydroponic food being grown on Venus is contaminated and being delivered to Saturn. Commander Corey believes this is an attempt to drive up the prices for Venus grown food and has assigned Tonga as an undercover chemist at one of the Hydroponic farms. She is working under the name of Miss Burns and is working for a Mr. Richard Baxter.

Buzz and Happy leave Saturn en route aboard the Terra V to Venus when Tonga calls and reports that she has found out how the contamination is going on. Unknown to her and Commander Corey her quarters are bugged and Mr. Burns and a Mr. Agle discover that she is an undercover Space Patrol agent.

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Continuing their search for Solar Guard Capt. Mitch Parker and his rocket scout their task seems fruitless until Roger sights a lifeboat near the orbit of Jupiter. The lifeboat is empty but the ships log indicates Captain Parker is on the surface of Jupiter.

The atmosphere on Jupiter is inhospitable to say the least and the gravity is nearly 2 1/2 times that of Earth, where each crew member weighs nearly 400 pounds making it difficult for the cadets to work on the surface. After lumbering around and weathering a Jupiter storm and ground quakes rocket scout pilot Captain Parker is found and after much effort is dragged back to the ship and rescued.

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The Space Station M5 in orbit around Mars receive a routine report from Solar Guard Captain Mitch Parker who is in the Rocket Scout 4J9 on routine patrol around Jupiter when transmission is cut off causing the Solar Patrol to go on alert. Tom, Astro and Roger are having a fight when Capt Strong shames the cadets for not showing more team work.

Commander Arkwright then orders Captain Strong and the Polaris Unit to blast off and search for Captain Parker and the missing rocket scout. During the search for Captain Parker they must rely on teamwork when Astro and Roger go out of the Polaris after a collision with an asteroid to repair the radar of the Polaris. While making repairs to the radar a near miss by another asteroid throws Roger off of the Polaris. Astro daringly leaps after Roger saving him.

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