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Today: 5 February 2012

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1564, Feb 15 :  Died Galileo Galilei, considered responsible for the birth of modern science and the scientific method . . . More

1642, Jan 8 :  Born Galileo Galilei, considered responsible for the birth of modern science and the scientific method . . . More

1866, Sep 21 :  Born H.G. Wells, early science fiction author of War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon . . . More

1882, Oct 5 :  Born, Robert H Goddard, rocket pioneer, built the world’s 1st liquid-fueled rocket launched on 16 Mar 1926 . . . More

1897, Aug 28 :  Born Legendary Sci-Fi actor Morris Ankrum star of science fiction films such as 1953′s Invaders from Mars . . . More

1898, Nov 29 :  Born British C. S. Lewis author of the Space Trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia . . . More

1902, May 2 :  FRA The first science fiction film “A Trip To The Moon” was released . . . More

1908, Jan 8 :  Born William Hartnell actor who played the first Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who between 1963-1966 . . . More

1912, Apr 18 :  Born Al Hodge Captain Video of the classic space travel TV show Captain Video and his Video Rangers . . . More

1913, May 26 :  Born Peter Cushing actor best known for appearances in Hammer Films and as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars . . . More

1914, Apr 2 :  Born Alec Guinness known to space travel buffs as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy . . . More

1914, Apr 28 :  Born Philip E High an English science fiction writer such as his 1964′s The Prodigal Sun . . . More

1914, Jun 12 :  Born William Lundigan best known as Colonel Edward McCauley in the classic CBS TV series, Men Into Space . . . More

1914, Nov 6 :  Born Jonathan Harris actor for comic villain Dr. Zachary Smith in the 1960s sci-fi TV series, Lost in Space . . . More

1915, Mar 3 :  USA’s National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) the NASA forerunner was created . . . More

1915, May 6 :  Born American director Orson Welles who caused the Halloween 1938 War of the Worlds panic radio broadcast . . . More

1915, Jun 24 :  Born Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer, science fiction writer, author Rockets in Ursa Major among others . . . More

1915, Sep 3 :  Born Guy Kingsley Poynter actor who played Doc Matthews in the BBC radio series Journey Into Space . . . More

1915, Oct 12 :  Born Mike Moser creator and producer of 1950′s Space Travel TV and Radio series Space Patrol . . . More

1915, Oct 16 :  Born Judd Holdren actor who played Captain Video and Commando Cody in early 1950′s TV and serial movies . . . More

1917, Dec 16 :  Born Sir Arthur C. Clarke science fiction writer most famous for his novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey . . . More

1918, Jun 10 :  Born Barry Morse long time science fiction actor best known as Professor Victor Bergman in Space: 1999 . . . More

1920, Mar 3 :  Born James Doohan better known as Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott of the Star Trek TV and film series . . . More

1920, Aug 22 :  Born Ray Bradbury science fiction writer best known for short stories such as The Martian Chronicles . . . More

1920, Oct 29 :  Born, Ed Kemmer classic 1950′s SciFi TV actor who played Commander Buzz Correy, CIC of the Space Patrol . . . More

1921, Apr 9 :  Born, classic 1950′s SciFi TV actor Frankie Thomas Best known as Polaris Unit’s Tom Corbett, Space Cadet . . . More

1921, Aug 19 :  Born Gene Roddenberry best known as the creator of the TV and movie science fiction universe of Star Trek . . . More

1921, Aug 26 :  Born Maxime A Faget, considered to be the “Chief Designer” of American manned spacecraft . . . More

1922, Jul 6 :  USA Born William Schallert one of the most prolific actors in Scince Fiction Movies and TV history . . . More

1922, Nov 11 :  Born Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Science Fiction author of many classic stories of dystopian worlds of the future . . . More

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It is the year 2000 Plus 370 or 2370 and space travel has become routine. Space cruise liner passenger service’s are on regularly scheduled in the spaceways. The Space Cruise Liner Golden Star is commencing her maiden voyage with 750 paying passengers for a cruise to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

In addition to the 750 passengers Inter Galactic News Service (IGNS) reporter Whitey Ford bullies his way aboard and on the cruise. Will he live to regret this manuever?

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Welcome to this new category for Classic Space Travel here at Spacemen’s Luck. Space Travel Movies of the 1950′s and 1960′s is important for those of you, like myself, who got your vision of space travel from the radio and TV of the 1950′s.

In the series “Space Travel Movies” I will have show descriptions, cast members, production credits and plot lines for movies made during the 1950′s and 1960′s. Additionally, I will be adding my own reviews for these classics. Of course I am biased toward any and all science fiction space travel movies, serials, TV shows, radio episodes and books created during those golden days of space travel.

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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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