ACADEMY UNITS -Backbone of the Academy. Three cadets to a unit, each unit must work, room, study and train together as a unit. The unit is placed within the Academy classrooms and on duty aboard Rocket Cruisers. The unit derives their name from the rocket cruisers they are assigned too. These units must pass all tests together as a unit or fail as a unit

ALPHA CENTAURI - Closest star system to ours. Four light years away with the planet Tara and Tara Jr. Tara Jr. was found to have been 3/4 copper and a prize for the Alliance.

AMAZON CITY -City located in South American Federation along the tropical Amazon river. Many plantations and summer homes of the wealthy are located in or nearby . Amazon City is the largest city in the Southern hemisphere.

ANNE JONES -Freighter used in several stories. (1)Ship used by Loring to crash into Venus Space Station in G&D book Danger in Deep Space. (2)Name of ship used in radio show of Danger in Deep Space for the trip out to the moon of Tara.

AUSTIN, HELEN -One of Roger Mannings many girl friends. Helen was the " space doll" Roger was calling from Venus Space Station when the Annie Jones crashed into it.

AUTOWRITER -Voice transcriber from Audio to printed word.

ARKWRIGHT, COMMANDER -Commander of the Space Academy in all of the TC adventures except the Grosset & Dunlap books. In the G&D books Commander Walters is the head of the Academy.

ARCTURUS UNIT -The Polaris unit's arch rivals. The unit is second only to the Polaris unit in achievement and many other activities such as Mercury ball. Tony Curtis is the leader with McAvoy and Davison. The Unit's name was changed later to the Capella unit when their ship was retired.

ATMOSPHERE GENERATOR -Equipment to power the reduction of the "heavy" atmosphere of Venus into breathable air. (2)Also used to create atmosphere from Oxygen rich rocks such as those found on Mars (Note: this concept of Oxygen extraction was used in the 1964 movie classic ROBINSON CRUSOE OF MARS).

ATMOSPHERE STATION -Important for life on airless worlds and asteroids. On Venus the Stations are 2,000 miles apart and are the lungs of the planet taking air (which is heavy in Oxygen) reducing it to Oxygen at 8 X 10 ⁶ cu.ft./min.

AMARAT, GREGOR & STACY -Brother & Sister trying to steal Durol form space colony.

BADGER, RANDY -Con artist. Randy and daughter Kitten were charged for unlawfully use of Solar Communications to defraud by selling land on Saturn. (News # )

BARRET, DAVE -Prof Hemmingwell's assistant. Developed tunnel from Academy for testing of -Project I. Also one of the saboteurs of the project and almost causes the explusion of Astro and Roger from the Academy.

BARTER, -cadet on Titan mission with Polaris unit.

BARNARD, KIT -Former Solar Guard Office who resigned a great military career to go into private freight business. Created New Atomic Engine allowing a D-30 rate power rating.

BATTLE, CAPT. -Caps of girl cadets who gives Roger a hard time about the girl cadets while the two units are on Titan (News# ).

BEACHHEAD OPERATION -Developed by Academy line officers working with lab idea men, to investigate accidents in Sirius star system. Prof Sike's and Dr. Dale developed robot rocket which would orbit Thor in the Sirius system and gather data on the planet. (GD#8)

BELT COMMUNICATOR -Small communication device located on the belt buckle of Solar Guard uniforms for short range communications.

BLACK MASKED INVADERS -Mercurians who overran Station J on Venus.(News #1 & Tom Ranger Pilot ).

BLOW YOUR JETS- Get overly excited.

BUCK, LADDIE -Under cover agent in the Martian Separatist movement for Solar Guard.

BUILKER, JON -First spaceman to travel beyond our solar system.

BURR, -Legal wizard who saves Badgers in Flaxvillle (News# ).

BUSH, ED -Henchman for Paul Vidac (GD# Space Pioneers).

BRETT, CHARLEY -Owner of Space Knight and Owner of illegal uranium mine on Titan. 3

CADET COUNCIL -Composed of cadets to settle disputes and infractions of rules by cadets. The most severe cases can cause expulsion of cadets from the Academy.

CAFE COSMOS -Located on Spaceman's row in Venusport. Underworld and Spacemen without space papers gather at the cafe.

CAPELLA UNIT -See Arcturus Unit.

CAZIPPI, JOSEPH -Alas used by Tom Corbett. Tom poses as an engineer from Titan.

CHANNEL SA-Special Emergency Channel to Space Academy.

CHIMES OF GALILEO -Academy Bells which toll the hour and the half hour.

COLONY F-G -Lush resort on Venus located above a rich deposit of Durol.

COMET WATCH -A one man patrol operation outside the orbit of Mars. Used in charting Meteors that stray into inhabited space. Referred to as astro-navigation watches.

CONGRESS OF CHIEFS -Martians Lts who planned to overthrow ofthe Solar Alliance on Mars. (news# ).

CONNEL, LOU -Major Blastoff Connel, 30 years in the Solar Guard. Awarded the Solar Medal three times (more than anyone else). He advanced through the ranks from enlisted to commissioned officer during an emergency in space.

CONTRA-TERRANE -Anti-matter, negative charged material explosive on contact with positive charged material. Anti-matter has negative charge in alternate universe while we are made of positive charged material in this universe.

CREDITS -Standard money unit used in the Solar Alliance.

D-9 RATE -Rate reactive fuel is feed into atomic engines in order to blast off.

D-12 RATE -Full space speed.

D-30 RATE -unheard of reaction rate achieved by Astro on the Cruiser GOOD COMPANY powered by Kit Barnard's new atomic engine.

DALTON, LYCURGUS -Judge and legal genius who lives in Flaxville Mars and defended the Badgers. (News # )

DAMP YOUR TUBES -Slow down, don't over react. (2)slow an atomic reaction by putting in Cargon rods.

DAWNE, GLORIA - Jet pilot who wants to be the first women to Alpha Centaur.

DIAMOND-LITE -Sharpest and strongest blades known. Only thing known to cut Dura-steel by mechanical means.

DIVISIONIST -Martian splinter group commanded by a renegade Solar Guardsman who wants independence from the Alliance. Symbol on inside of right palm denotes someone as a divisionist.

DOG STAR -Old freighter confiscated from the Titan smugglers and used in ON THE TRAIL OF SPACE PIRATES. (G & D# 4)

DUARTE, GIGI -Nick name "Gigi the Chicken"- well liked pilot killed by Brett in Titan Race.

DORA-STEEL -Thin yet strong steel, one of the hardest known metal wires.

DUROL -A fuel more precious than platinum.

DRAGO -Head of Divisionist uprising.

EARTHWORM-(l)Earthmen who have never ventured into space (2)Anyone who has never left their native born planet (3)New candidate cadet at Space Academy.

EARTHWORM MANUEL - Book of regulations and traditions of the Space Academy. Each new cadet (earthworm) must know the book backward and forward when questioned by upperclassmen.

EDWARDS, BENJY -Cadet defense lawyer for Capella Unit in misconduct trial. Had run-in with Tom Corbett when Edwards had used excessive hazing of Earthworm cadets and was caught by Tom

ENERGY LOCKS - A very sophisticated lock using energy in the form of light as a locking mechanism. Impossible to open without right combinations. The lock is scanned by a light key that utilize color vibrations in a particular sequence projected into a electromagnetic lock.

FISHBOWLS -Clear Bubble shaped space suit helmets.

FLAXVILLE MARS -Small out post on mars used by the Badges to escape Solar Alliance justice.

FORCE FIELD -Used to form a screen or dome around colonies in space such as Titan's where Methane is held out. Electronic impulses (pure energy) shot into an area pushing back deadly atmosphere forming a solid wall, creating a force greater and thicker in an area, then pump in pure oxygen into the space.

FULL SPACE SPEED -Top emergency speed.

FULL SPACE GEAR -Includes space suit, communicator, weapons. (2) Slang for "ready for any emergency. "

FUSE YOUR JETS -Don't get excited or in a hurry. Used by Roger Manning.

SNIFFER- Radiation-detector and analyzer used in finding particles of atomic waste trails from rockets. (See radiation patterns)

SOLAR ALLIANCE -Governmental body of the inner planets in a solar system government Earth, Mars andVenus.

SOLAR BEACON -Light beacon of the Venus Expo. Light changed color every sec. with message Quis Separabit Homo- Who shall separate mankind."

SOLAR GUARD-The policing force of the Alliance with cadets from within the system as future guardsman

SPACE ACADEMY-The university of the planets, located between the low hills of the former desert of western part ofthe North American Commonwealth. Center for the Alliance's research and training of future Solar Guardsman of Earth, the colonies of Venus, Mars, the 3 large satellites the moon of Earth, Titan of Saturn and Ganymede of Jupiter.

SPACE CADET -Future Solar Guardsmen. Cadets are subject to very difficult training and testing. The cadets must serve a patrol shipof the Solar Guard until approved and promoted to Guardsman. Average age of cadet is 17 - 23.

SPACE CHESS- Basic space maneuvers. A Glass case is split into (7 fit cube) equal smaller cubes. Chess pieces consist of 3 rocket cruisers, 6 destroyers, and 10 scouts. Object ofthe game is to get a combination of cruisers, destroyers and scouts into a apace sector where it can knock out opponent's ships.

SPACE CYCLONE - Strong radiation turbulence and solar winds caused by the sun's Choronoshpere.

SPACE DEVIL Ship used to By Loring, Mason and Manning for the trip to Junior Pitch in Danger in Deep Space. ARer twenty years in the Venus Jungle the ship was refurbished for a trip out of the solar system.

SPACE FEVER - (l)Dreaded sickness of space that causes people to blackout and may mean permanent grounding of Pilots. (2)Low threshold of irritability, vertigo, passing out at critical moments due to a traveler subjected to fluctuating pressures.

SPACE HAPPY- (l)Crazy (2) Been in space to long and have becoming confused and disoriented. See Zero A Fever

SPACE JUNK - (l)Asteroids, stray pieces of metal or anything else that might cause a puncture in a spaceship(2) some of little worth.

TAMEL, LIDDY-Famous stereo actress ofthe Sarah Bumheart class. Favorite actress of the Polaris unit

TELENEWS - News service via teletype machine printout- may be installed in rooms and private homes- World Wide-news services

TELERECEIVER -Long distance receiver and transmitter used as radio transmitter.

TERRA STATION -Two stations circling the Earth for Communications.

THERAPO-RAYS - Healing rays that stimulate health cells to mend.

THOR-Planet ofthe Alpha Proxima system with an Ammonia Atmosphere density of 7,200 degrees below zero. Almost pure fissionable U-235 areas of pure reactant.

T.J. THISTLE- Best communication cadet ofthe Mars academy. Replaces Roger Manning on Radar deck as Roger is transferred to Mars Academy.

TITAN CRYSTAL, Unique crystal on Satum's moon that when refined turns metal into hard crystal stronger than metal.

TRAVELER-Willard & Lester's Spaceship Class J-7 freighter used in Robot Rocket.

TRI-WORLDS- The three inner Planets, Venus, Earth and Mars. The primary group of planets at the heart of the Solar Alliance as the trade and cultural centers of the Alliance.

TROY, PAT- ProfHemminwell's assistant. accused of sabotaging the Projectile project but in reality and undercover agent ordered to protect it.

TURNER, TWINK- (First Newspaper adventure 10-51- ) Escaped from Station J as Invaders landed. Retums to Station with Polaris crew to stop invasion.

TWILIGHT ZONE-Thin band on Mercury where there is a mining operation and experiment station. Only area on Mercury where life-support buildings are built-between cold/hot .

VENUS INTERPLANETARY SOLAR EXPOSITION- Earth time May 17 2353-A small scale model of solar system with a gathering of the greatest minds, thoughts and ideas in knowledgeable history of mankind. Lectures from the greatest minds in the system on all subjects. Exhibits include: Assembling a rocket cruiser, piece by piece in front of all visitors, greatest collection of musicians in the universe, continuously playing the most beautiful music in a hall built to seat a half million people. Three years in co-ordination ideas activity, and information. Included in a special events the lowering of a time capsule with all of the knowledge of the solar alliance in it.

VENUS SPACE STATION-One of many stations around the different planets that direct trafficbetwen the surface of the planet and outer space. The stations are also manned by cadets and used as training stations for the Space Academy.

VENUSIAN HILLBILLY-Term used by Manning to describe Astro.

VENUSIAN NATIONALIST- A separatist movement that wanted to revolt against the Alliance. Led by a secret leader known as Lactu, the nationalist used frosted helmets so they would not recognize one another. They divided the planet into Divisions led by Division chiefs. Terror was used to force many into the movement but the movement was defeated by the Polaris unit.

VENUSPORT - One of many space ports where rockets land from all over the universe. A trade center of Venus and the only metropolis on Venus.

VENUSPORT FREIGHT SHIP COMPANY- Small company of 4 ships that won Loring's franchise after Loring Lost his space papers. Loring later sabotaged the ship line an caused the wreak of the Anne Jones in the Space Station of Danger (radio).

VIDAL, PAUL -Lt Gov of Wolf 359- Roald. Replaced Strong and took over colony. (SPACE PIONEERS)

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