A group of boys watch the launching of a rocket ship, and two of them wish that they were older and could make the trip themselves. They apply for the Interplanetary Patrol and await their decision once they turn 21, but soon Chris gets a surprise that will change his life forever.; Amos and Sally are driving by a lake when a strangely garbed man jumps up on the running board of their car and drops a package in the back seat. Later, Amos looks at the package, postmarked May 15, 2053, and discovers something called a trans-dimensional transporter inside. Thinking it to be some sort of gadget to soup up his hot-rod, Amos installs the device, traveling into the future. He then plots to kill his wife and travel into the future to establish an alibi.....with unexpected results.; Colonel Dane is selected to pilot a brand new spaceship, powered by an electronic brain, which enables this vessel to be a virtual one-man war rocket. While it seems the rocketship could operate itself with no human pilot, the drawback is the ship is void of emotion: it cannot hate, it doesn't know love and it cannot create. That drawback will cost Dane his life and the electronic brain its housing.