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Season 8, Episode 9: Rocket to the Future! Part One, Chapter 7

Once again we return to the space-age future--the year 1992 and the exploits of the crew of the Earth Space Force rocket Vanguard. Towed into space by their sister ship, the Knausgaard, Captain Major and his band of intrepid space explorers face a new threat: SPACE PLAGUE! But saboteurs tainted the rocket's supply of anti-space vaccine quite a few episodes ago, so there's no way out! Tune in for spills and chills as Lt. Lindley of the Knausgaard and Ex-Ensign Nemesis of the Vanguard are cast adrift on the "garbage planet" (really just a moon) of Deimos, Mars' less-scary satellite. What they uncover--and what Commander Iris Train and Ensign Zinn discover in the Vanguard's cargo bay--will shake the Earth Space Force down to its very space socks!