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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Our story begins in an office of a government official who is the Regional Administrator in the Department of Interplanetary Affairs, where the narrator describes a yellow pottery bowl on the Administrator ‘s desk. It is a masterful piece of craftsmanship decorating his desk. Michael Tom, the Administrator and owner of the yellow pottery bowl, takes over story, telling us the bowl’s origin.

Michael Tom reflects back on the time in 1992 when he was assigned to the planet Firsk as Assistant Resident. The natives near the village of Penolpon are divided into two tribes, one agricultural, the Metooans and the other Potters.

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The classic 1953 movie Phantom From Space concerns the sighting of a UFO hurtling from Alaska to the California coast at great speed, where the object seems to disappear. After massive interference with radio transmission brings Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigators into action they realize the strange craft appears to have crashed somewhere in the city of Santa Monica.

The FCC investigators begin searching for the source of interference suddenly wreaking havoc in the area, and they guys keep bumping into cops investigating murders and other acts of destruction. The also are encountering reports from people of seeing what appears to be a man dressed in a bizarre outfit.

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Previously in Journey Into Space, Operation Luna, Jet Morgan and his crew took off from the Moon, intending to return to the Earth, but a fleet of strange spaceships based on the other side of the Moon rose up to meet them and, so it seemed, attack them.

Jet and his companions lost consciousness, only to find, when they came round, that they were millions of miles from the solar system and hurtling through outer space at an unimaginable speed.

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The 1953 classic science fiction movie Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 Science fiction film directed by Arthur Hilton and stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor.

1953 Cat-Women of the Moon was originally released in full stereoscopic 3-D format in 1953, and a regular B/W print was released later under the title “Rocket to the Moon”. The version of 1953 Cat-Women of the Moon available below for viewing is the B/W version.

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The Federal Bureau of Missing Persons is broadcasting it’s latest coded bulletin transmission with a list of recently missing persons when they receive a CQ (SOS) radio message from a crank calling earth who claims to be calling from the Moon. Triangulating to locate the offender, radio operator Charlie Stafford discovers that the message did in fact come from the Moon from a man identifying himself as Cornelius Otterburn. Of course the call is dismissed, until a minor member of the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons begins to suspect that the call is related to a strange series of disappearances over the past several years.

Charlie Stafford tells Federal Bureau of Missing Persons records clerk Henry Stinton who recognizes the name and decides to investigate the name Cornelius Otterburn and finds only one person with that name has gone missing and he was an Atomic Physicist who had disappeared 5 years previously on June 5th 1945.

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In the previous episode (Episode 5) we left our space weary travelers launching from the moon and keeping to their original plans they make one orbit around the moon to be the first to see the dark side of the moon. We pickup the story here as they are now in lunar orbit on the back side peering down at the surface when suddenly they see one extremely large crater with dozens of little craters inside of it. Then Lemmy points out that those are not little craters but ships that are rising up very fast toward them.

At first the crew panics thinking they are coming up after them to destroy them but the strange craft settle into a hovering orbit just below the rocketship Luna. Once the they are back around the moon in their orbit with their ship again facing toward the earth they cut in their engines and blast for earth.

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A mysterious planet has entered our solar system and is approaching Earth at breakneck speed. It appears it will miss and pass near the earth. A small Scottish village name Burray on a remotes island is where the planet is expected to pass nearest to the Earth. A group of characters are gathering on the island to investigate this Planet X. Professor Elliot, his attractive daughter Enid Elliot, dashing reporter John Lawrence, a newspaper reporter called to the Scottish moor by his friend, Professor Elliot, to cover what will be the story of his lifetime. The Professor’s assistant who is a bad (but not mad) scientist Dr. Mears. The Professor and his team are working out of a makeshift observatory in an old Scottish tower next to the local moor.

Elliot’s daughter Enid and John discover as they are walking the moors a “magnetically powered range finder” used to determine the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere whose metal has unearthly properties and is quite a find for science.

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Space Travel Hero Role:
Buster Crabbe played both Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the feature sci-fi serials of the 1930′s and 1940′s.

Space Travel Bio:
Born Clarence “Buster” Linden Crabbe in Oakland, California on February 17, 1908, Buster Crabbe spent his formative years in Hawaii, where he learned to swim. Prior to winning a gold medal in 1932 for the 400-meter freestyle, Crabbe had graduated from college and attempted to break into films with a few bit parts while working as a stunt double. Crabbe landed a contract with Paramount Studios in 1933.

Buster Crabbe won a gold medal in the 400 Meter Swimming Freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He also won a bronze medal in the 1500 Meter Freestyle at the 19228 Amsterdam Olympics.

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In Part 1 of The Giants of Mercury the Cadets were en route to Astro’s home world of Venus for some well deserved shore leave when Lieutenant Commander Burke of the Solar Guard’s Venus Port orders the cadets shore leave cancelled and diverts them to a Mercury Base to investigate a possible outbreak of Zero “A” Fever.

After Commander Burke back on Venus receives the Cadets request for additional forces, Burke didn’t believe them and instead of sending reinforcements and weapons he sends medics including a Dr. Ashton and Nurse Leslie Everett to Mercury in an unarmed Space Freighter because he didn’t believe their story of a giant man believing they have gone Zero “A.”

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