Spacemens Luck

 

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

Solar Guard, Space Academy Cadets, Tom Corbett and Roger Manning are both campaigning for President of the Cadet Council. Before the elections can be announced an epidemic of unknown origin breaks out on Titan Colony. Commander Arkwright orders all Cadet Units to assist in the evacuation of Titan.

Captain Strong, Officer-in-Charge of the Polaris Unit, along with Tom, Roger and Astro blast off in the Rocket Cruiser Polaris to the Titan Colony to help evacuate the children. Rogers first thoughts are of a girl he knows on Titan but Captain Strong warns the Cadets that a quarintine is in effect and no one will be allowed to leave the ship.

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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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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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