Jet Sparks
By Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Hi! I'd like to blast off this column by
welcoming you to the Junior Adventurers Club. You can bet your rockets there's plenty of good, exciting reading ahead
of you.
Most of you fellows probably know me and my pals already, but I'd like to introduce myself to those of you whom I haven't met . . . yet!
I'm Tom Corbett, a cadet at Space Academy, U.S.A. The Academy was created by the Solar Alliance (the government of the solar system) in order to train spacemen to man the rocket ships that link the planets and satellite outposts.
It's a little like the West Point Military Academy that you fellows know in your time. But now, in the year 2354, we have some tougher problems to handle, like the space pirates that will swipe the strato-tubes right off your back and leave you floating in the black void of the outer universe.
Here at the Academy, we're organized into tight, hard-hitting units of three. (Astro, Roger Manning and I form the Polaris unit, which we try to keep up at the top of the Solar list.) We're supposed to spend most of our time blasting through space on training missions, or attending classes at the Academy . . . I said we're supposed to! But Astro, Roger and I always seem to get into the middle of some adventures that hit harder than a barrel of meteors.
But I guess that's the way we're built, and speaking for the three of us, I know we wouldn't have it any other way. Neigher would you if you were in our spaceboots. That's what makes life at Space Academy so exciting.
So, I'm calling all you "Earthworms" (friendly name for Earthfellows) to join us as honorary members of the Polaris unit of Space Academy . . . and share every one of our many adventures. It's as simple as opening a book . . . if the book is TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET.
Most of you fellows probably know me and my pals already, but I'd like to introduce myself to those of you whom I haven't met . . . yet!
I'm Tom Corbett, a cadet at Space Academy, U.S.A. The Academy was created by the Solar Alliance (the government of the solar system) in order to train spacemen to man the rocket ships that link the planets and satellite outposts.
It's a little like the West Point Military Academy that you fellows know in your time. But now, in the year 2354, we have some tougher problems to handle, like the space pirates that will swipe the strato-tubes right off your back and leave you floating in the black void of the outer universe.
Here at the Academy, we're organized into tight, hard-hitting units of three. (Astro, Roger Manning and I form the Polaris unit, which we try to keep up at the top of the Solar list.) We're supposed to spend most of our time blasting through space on training missions, or attending classes at the Academy . . . I said we're supposed to! But Astro, Roger and I always seem to get into the middle of some adventures that hit harder than a barrel of meteors.
But I guess that's the way we're built, and speaking for the three of us, I know we wouldn't have it any other way. Neigher would you if you were in our spaceboots. That's what makes life at Space Academy so exciting.
So, I'm calling all you "Earthworms" (friendly name for Earthfellows) to join us as honorary members of the Polaris unit of Space Academy . . . and share every one of our many adventures. It's as simple as opening a book . . . if the book is TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET.
"Jet Sparks" originally appeared in issue #1 of the Junior Adventurers Club News,
published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1954. |
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