Spacemens Luck

 

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

Captain Strong and Cadet Tom Corbett are assigned to assist an inventor named Mr. Franklin in the testing of an experimental spaceship. There test includes diving into the earths atmosphere at full space speed. Any other rocket ship would break up at those speeds. Mr. Franklins ship has most major support structures built with Vanadium. A very rare metal that is many times stronger than any other know metal.

After diving into the atmosphere part of the left rear stabilizer and steering vane begins to disintegrate, a part of the ship made with traditional metals and not the vanadium. The failure causes the ship to crash but all aboard survive. Despite the accident the Solar Alliance are convinced that the Vanadium is worthwhile mining. Before now the Vanadium has been extremely rare, but a large deposit of it has been discovered on the Jupiter moon of Ios. Convinced that Mr Franklins process for using Vanadium in the structures of space ships is of immense value they commission him to begin mining it from Ios.

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