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Our story begins with Commander “Buzz” Correy and Cadet Happy of the United Planets Space Patrol are aboard the Battle Cruiser Terra V en route to Jupiter’s number two moon. An unmanned instrument station has stopped sending back signals.

As they approach the location of the station they realize the station’s atmosphere dome is gone. They land to investigate and they find the instruments are in place and the walls and the doors to the dome are still there but the plastic dome is completely gone without a trace.

Buzz and Happy head to Jupiter to the Shargon Physiological Center near Jupiter City where remote instrument station’s data is received and interpreted. There they meet with Major Robertson and Dr. William Conrad who is in charge of the program of monitoring the remote unmanned instrument stations. Commander Correy dispatches Major Robertson back to Jupiters number two moon to investigate the missing shell.

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Our story begins with Commander Correy and Cadet Happy on their way to the New Arcadia Space Port in Arizona, Earth in a surface car when they see a meteor shower then one of the meteorites crashes into the city of New Arcadia. Buzz and Happy race to the scene where they find the meteorite has crashed in one of the parks of New Arcadia.

Major Robertson the Space Patrol’s Security Chief greets and briefs the Commander. He informs him that the meteor crash created a pit nearly twenty yards across but fortunately no one was injured.

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Space Travel Hero Role: Television and Radio series Space Patrol as “Buzz Corry” Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol

What They Are Doing Today: Ed Kimmer passed away on November 09, 2004 age 84 in New York City, New York

Ed Kemmer, who played Commander “Buzz” Corry, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol, in the popular ABC 1950′s sci-fi television and radio show Space Patrol.

Space Patrol chronicled the adventures of Commander “Buzz” Corry, who fought intergalactic villains of the 30th century while flying around in the Space Patrols Terra V spacecraft with comic sidekick, Cadet Happy, played by Lyn Osborn.

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Have you ever wondered “Whatever Became of…” someone who years ago was famous and you haven’t heard of them in years? Here at Spacemen’s Luck I have wondered “Whatever Became of…” the many personalities who played Classic Space Travel characters that helped form my vision of Space Travel in the 1950′s and 1960′s.

Not being someone who is willing to wait for someone else to do it for me and after a search around the internet I found no single source discussing “Whatever Became of…” those Classic Space Travelers.

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The sixteenth episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is another one of those lost episodes. It is believed to have been broadcast on 17 January 1953. Though we believe we know the title of this episode the story line in not known. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows turn up from a previously unknown source.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that this episode is lost and no longer available. Anyone who may discover a copy of this "Lost" episode and would like to get it into public circulation please contact Spaceman (Senior Rating) Ray.

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Commander Buzz Corey is concerned about the number of accidents Spaceway’s Inc. are having on their freight and passenger ships operating in the outer planets of the Solar System (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto), which seems to coincide with the expansion into the outer planet routes of the powerful TransOrbit shipping line. The TransOrbit Shipping line is headed by a woman named Jelna Fenton who has self identified herself as the “Queen of Space” and an assistant and all around thug Brax Cardo.

An aside: Since this episode is all about the outer planets perhaps Jelna Fenton, and this episode should be called the “Queen of Outer Space.” The movie Queen of Outer Space is one of my favorite space movies and a cult classic.

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This the fifth episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is another of the lost episodes. It is believed to have been broadcast on 01 November 1952. Though we believe we know the title of this episode the story line in not known. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows turn up from a previously unknown source.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that this episode is lost and no longer available. Anyone who may discover a copy of this "Lost" episode and would like to get it into public circulation please contact Spaceman (Senior Rating) Ray.

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This the second episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is a lost episode. It is believed to have been broadcast on 18 October 1952. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows does turn up from a previously unknown source.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that this episode is lost and no longer available. Anyone who may discover a copy of this "Lost" episode and would like to get it into public circulation please contact Spaceman (Senior Rating) Ray.

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The first episode in the Space Patrol radio show series is a lost episode. It is believed to have been broadcast on 4 October 1952. It is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows turn up from a previously unknown source.

* The Old Time Radio Researchers Organization Database indicates that this episode is lost and no longer available. Anyone who may discover a copy of this "Lost" episode and would like to get it into public circulation please contact Spaceman (Senior Rating) Ray.

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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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