Spacemens Luck

 

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

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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After Ross and later Loring confess to the sabotaging of the Elizabeth Chester, Roger is cleared. While delivering James Loring back to Venus, aboard the Rocket Scout 7J4, to stand trial Captain Strong is overpowered by Loring. Then Loring escapes to the Venus jungles in a jet boat. After completing his special assignment, Astro joins the Polaris Unit on the Space Station. Where he joins Tom Corbett in the search for Loring who has escaped to the Venus jungles. They leave Roger Manning behind to cover for them.

The cadets find Lorings hideout only to be captured by Loring and frozen with a parallel ray gun leaving them as the intended meal for a Tyranasaurus Rex dinosaur. Roger and Captain Strong who are searching for the missing cadets watch in horror as Loring tries to take off in the jet boat and is eaten by the T Rex instead of Lorings intended meal of Tom and Astro. The cadets were frozen and ignored by the dinosaur, but Loring was moving and a prime target. The Polaris Unit regroups and heads back to the Academy.

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Continuing their search for Solar Guard Capt. Mitch Parker and his rocket scout their task seems fruitless until Roger sights a lifeboat near the orbit of Jupiter. The lifeboat is empty but the ships log indicates Captain Parker is on the surface of Jupiter.

The atmosphere on Jupiter is inhospitable to say the least and the gravity is nearly 2 1/2 times that of Earth, where each crew member weighs nearly 400 pounds making it difficult for the cadets to work on the surface. After lumbering around and weathering a Jupiter storm and ground quakes rocket scout pilot Captain Parker is found and after much effort is dragged back to the ship and rescued.

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The Space Station M5 in orbit around Mars receive a routine report from Solar Guard Captain Mitch Parker who is in the Rocket Scout 4J9 on routine patrol around Jupiter when transmission is cut off causing the Solar Patrol to go on alert. Tom, Astro and Roger are having a fight when Capt Strong shames the cadets for not showing more team work.

Commander Arkwright then orders Captain Strong and the Polaris Unit to blast off and search for Captain Parker and the missing rocket scout. During the search for Captain Parker they must rely on teamwork when Astro and Roger go out of the Polaris after a collision with an asteroid to repair the radar of the Polaris. While making repairs to the radar a near miss by another asteroid throws Roger off of the Polaris. Astro daringly leaps after Roger saving him.

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