Spacemens Luck

 

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

If you haven’t heard already NASA’s mission is no longer manned space travel. With the decision to cancel the Constellation program there is no longer a plan for manned space flight for the United States.

NASA’s Project Constellation, was a plan to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the Solar System.

Canceling NASA’s Moon-bound Constellation program is expected to cost the U.S. space agency $2.5 billion in contract termination liability and other closeout costs over the next two years. Add to that the $9 billion already spent developing the Orion crew vehicle and Ares rockets the total cost for a program that will never be completed is over $11.5 billion. All for nothing.

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While returning from a leave on Earth Tom Corbett is Shanghaied by a man named Dawson, First Mate of the deep space freighter Constellation. Tom tries to explain to the Constellation’s Captain Pickering that he was a Space Cadet, but is ignored. Tom is befriended by a fellow Shanghaied shipmate, Jim Harris. The deep space freighter Constellation is destined to deep space while on Venus to top off their supplies they jump ship at Venus Space Port.

Their escape leads them straight into the hands of the Venus Space Port authorities. Is this a good thing? This episode for the first time I have seen in the series has actually left the listener with a cliff hanger. The announcer, Jackson Beck, indicates that his meeting with the Venus Port Commander may not be to Tom Corbett & Harris’s benefit.

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