Spacemens Luck

 

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

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Commander Buzz Correy and Cadet Happy have been on Venus conducting an undercover investigation into a larceny and fraud plot the United Planets government and Venus businessmen. While en route to the Venus space port with their evidence they are over powered by the subject of their investigation, Mr. Don Veal and his assistant Bob Henry.

Veal and Henry steal their evidence and make a getaway in the commercial space cruiser that Correy and Happy were about to leave in.

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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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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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Whatever Became Of Your Favorite Classic Space Travel Actor

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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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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Donald Hall of the United Planets Purchasing Commission reports to Commander “Buzz” Correy of the Space Patrol the sabatoge of some classified files. Correy orders a Brain-A-Graph on all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission.

Meanwhile on Lowell City, Mars space appropriations magnate Carlisle McCray, who’s business is as a wheeler dealer called “The Junkman” or “The Scavenger of Space,” is visited by his younger brother Larry McCray. It seems Larry has stolen some classified documents from his boss at the United Planets Purchasing Commission. He makes a deal with his brother, The Scavenger of Space, to turn over those documents so that he can make a killing on future United Planets Purchase contracts.

After giving a Brain-A-Graph to all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission on Earth and finding no clues to the missing or destroyed classified files the Commander heads to Lowell City, Mars to give Larry McCray a Brain-A-Graph.

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Astro’s Trial in Space continues. After 4 hours of shore leave at Mars Port, Captain Strong and the Cadets blastoff from Mars for their return trip to the Academy. Cadet Astro is still listed as a passenger aboard the Polaris for observation to see if he does in fact have space fever. Cadet Harvey is filling in for Astro’s Power Deck duties and this has Astro a little on edge and he tells Captain Strong that he is going to resign from the Academy as soon as they return.

Once in outer space Cadet Roger Manning detects a huge sun spot forming on the sun. It is the largest any of them have ever seen at over 300,000 miles in diameter. The Polaris crew knows that this will send out a solar storm and that they need to head back to Mars as quick as possible.

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Commander Correy is investigating some mysterious robberies. The robber(s) put the victims to sleep then make their get-a-way with whatever they have stolen. The head of the robbers is known as “The Sleep Walker.” In the latest robbery ITS Passenger Ship N157 has gone missing. After an all system alert goes out the ship is found out beyond the Neptune orbit. Unfortunately one of the passengers was kidnapped during the robbery. Commander Correy finds out that it is the Secretary General of the United Planets’s daughter, Carol Carlyle.

Thanks to Carol’s Miniature Space-A-Phone (which must not be widely used because the bad guys’s don’t suspect) she is able to contact Buzz and Happy and provide a signal that they can use to follow The Sleep Walker’s Class C Private Cruiser, PCP85. The Sleep Walker aka Woody Knorr and his assistant Bob Morgan take Carol to their hideout at the South West Sea near the Tyco Mountanis on Venus.

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Also known as “Astro gets Space Fever.” Returning from a routine training mission, Cadet Astro looses consciousness and Cadet Tom Corbett has to take over the Power Deck and Cadet Roger Manning man’s the Command Deck for landing. After the landing Astro blames fatigue, and doesn’t believe he is sick until he drops some deadly acids while conducting a lab experiment. Tom manges to save. Dr Dale, who is the lab instructor for their lab experiments, fears Astro may have “Space Fever” which would give Astro a medical discharge from the Academy.

Dr Dale orders Astro to Sick Bay where he under goes several tests. The tests turn out to not be conclusive as to whether Astro has Space Fever or not. Meanwhile the Polaris is ordered on another training mission and Cadet George Harvey takes Astro’s place on a trip to Mars. At the last minute, before lift off, Astro comes aboard as a passenger/patient to test his reaction in Space.

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