For the 2006 World Science Fiction Convention, held in Los Angeles, one of the guests of honor was actor Frankie Thomas, who starred in the original TV show, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Mike Resnick put together a tribute anthology of stories around the theme of “space cadets,” and he asked me to contribute. This is the story I came up with, action packed but also a little poignant, I hope. Sadly, Frankie Thomas died before the WorldCon, which made the anthology a memorial edition.