Spacemens Luck

 

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

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Commander Correy and Cadet Happy are en route to the Lunar Fleet Base on the Moon where an open house is being held at the Center for Scientific Research For Spaceflight. Space Patrol Assistant Security Chief Tonga contacts by Space-A-Phone to report that the microfilm blueprint plans for the D-Ray have been stolen and that Base Commander Colonel Jacobs has set Condition Red and locked the base down.

Before Commander Correy and Cadet Happy arrive the base personell have begun inspecting all film before any passengers can board their departing space craft. Any person attempting to bypass this security procedure and attempt to depart will pass through a Cancel Ray Machine that will erase all film.

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Space Patrol was a science fiction juvenile adventure with shows on both television and radio. Space Patrol was created by Mike Moser, a former U.S. Navy Air Force Veteran who had been in charge of training hurricane-hunter squadrons in World War II. The TV show’s success spawned a radio version from October 1952 to March 1955 running for 129 episodes. The same cast of actors performed on both the TV and the radio shows. Similarly the writers, scripts, story lines and director were used. The TV and radio versions ran separate adventures, with some of the TV villains also appearing on the radio show.

I believe that the concept of Space Patrol came straight from the Golden Age of space era popularized by Robert Heinlein’s book “Space Cadet.” Space Cadet was a 1948 science fiction novel about Matt Dodson, who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System. The story is a military academy story translated into an outer space story of a teenage boy from Iowa who goes to the Military Academy to become an officer and sees action and adventure, assumes responsibilities far beyond his years, and becomes a man.

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