Spacemens Luck

 

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

We join our lunar astronauts just after Jet presses the rocket ignition button and nothing happened. Then one by one all the ships systems shut down and they are left in a dead ship. Everything is quiet except for the sound of the ship’s master gyro whirring down until it stops.

After a complete inspection of the ships power system they can find nothing wrong except nothing has power. As Jet so concisely puts it unless they can find something they are stuck, stranded on the moon.

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This very strange episode begins with a Commander Dykstra, representing Central Operational Headquarters, sending out a bulletin about a strange space craft entering Space Sector K beyond the gravitational field of the planet Mars. Thi strange space craft is heading into section G so he is putting all defense units with all all High Voltage Destroyers on emergency alert.

Next we learn that Spaceship Phoenix, Flight 17 an experimental flight for Neptune, is launched.

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Space Travel Hero Role: Television and Radio series “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” 1950 – 1955. Fifty years after the series ended, he was still making personal appearances as a result of that role.

What They Are Doing Today: Tom passed away on May 11, 2006 at age 85 only a few weeks before he was to appear as a special guest at the 2006 Worldcon in Los Angeles (LA Con IV).

Biography
Frankie Thomas began acting on Broadway in the early 1930’s and soon went to Hollywood, where he appeared in films including Tim Tyler’s Luck (1937 serial), Boys Town (1938), the Dead End Kids at Military School (1939), Flying Cadets (1941) and The Major and the Minor (1942) as well as four Nancy Drew movies.

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We join our lunar astronauts outside of the ship. Jet, Doc and Lemmy suddenly hear that strange music again and Doc sees a movement near the craters edge. Jet goes over to investigate and disappears.

Doc and Lemmy go to the crater to investigate and they can find no trace of Jet. They call Mitch up in the ship to use the televiewer to see if he can find Jet. No such luck, Jet is nowhere to be seen. They try to call him on the radio with no results.

Three hours later Jet finally replies. They rejoin Jet who only believes he has been out of contact for about 5 minutes. During his absence he had been having a conversation with his uncle back on earth, in Jets youth, abut the possibility of space travel.

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From Part 1 we learned that Dr. Dale and Roger Manning have disappeared while investigating a rare ore from Asteroid 2049 which was a Polaris Unit class room labortory assignment. During the experiment an accidental mixing of elements caused an explosion proving the ore to be a new source of fuel.

Roger and Dr. Dale are sent to Asteroid 2049 to conduct experiments but disappear and can not be reached. Captain Strong, Tom and Astro depart for Asteroid 2049 investigate. They find Rocket Scout 9J and board the Rocket Scout but there is no one aboard. We last heard that Tom and Astro are trapped aboard Rocket Scout 9J and manage to escape before it blows up.

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In The Day The Earth Stood Still a humanoid envoy named Klattu and his mighty robot Gort, from another world, lands his Flying Saucer on the mall in Washington, D.C. Emerging from his ship he is immediately shot and Gort, his very powerful robot, appears to save him and begins to melt tanks. The wounded Klatuu orders Gort to stop his rampage. Then he is taken to Walter Reed Army Hospital.

In the hospital Klaatu tells our government that he brings an important message to the planet that he wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, the mistrust between nations seems to get in his way. So he escapes into the city to try and learn more about this planet and understand earth-men.

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In the future year of 1955 a mysterious visitor, named Graffious, to the Broderick Detective Agency, in downtown New York, hires Detective Broderick and his assistant “Iron Man” Doolan to find the Martian Embassy. Both Broderick and Doolan think Graffious is crazy and start to throw him out of their office. But Graffious flashes a $500.00 bank note and suddenly they are all ears.

Grafiius explains that he is an eccentric that believes that if the Martians were on Earth they would be here only as a prelude to an invasion. That if they are indeed on Earth they would have their “Embassy” in New York the center of economic and political activity. Their Embassy would act as a listening post to gather intelligence for their planned invasion.

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“I was alone in a room 100,000 miles from Earth. My body lay dead before me, and yet I spoke, I felt and lived. Behind me lay a tortured world, before me the moon and destiny.” So begins this story of Flying Saucers and aliens.

In the year 2012, for the past several months, since the launch of the first secret rocket “Zeus” there have been Flying Saucers hovering around the White Sands Missile Base. The leadership decide to destroy the Flying Saucer with the launch of “Zeus 2.” This rocket will be equipped with mass attraction and proximity fuses with 5,000 pounds of the high explosive Hexinite.

After the flying saucer is destroyed the head of the project Dr. Andrew Bronson and his assistant Eileen Harkness are kidnapped by another flying saucer.

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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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Commander Correy and Cadet Happy are en route to the Lunar Fleet Base on the Moon where an open house is being held at the Center for Scientific Research For Spaceflight. Space Patrol Assistant Security Chief Tonga contacts by Space-A-Phone to report that the microfilm blueprint plans for the D-Ray have been stolen and that Base Commander Colonel Jacobs has set Condition Red and locked the base down.

Before Commander Correy and Cadet Happy arrive the base personell have begun inspecting all film before any passengers can board their departing space craft. Any person attempting to bypass this security procedure and attempt to depart will pass through a Cancel Ray Machine that will erase all film.

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