Space Racers

As part of his training, Hawk is unexpectedly assigned to lead a mission to the Moon. His job: to supervise the use of a new Lunar Elevator to lift a group of freighters carrying valuable Moon rocks up into space, and then lead the convoy safely back to Earth.

It's time for a Stardust Space Academy tradition: the exciting annual race across Mars's rocky canyons, which happens once every Martian year (twice as long as an Earth year). Coach Pigeon is busy training and preparing the cadets, who aspire to be as good as the legendary all-time Mars Canyon Race champion, Swift Starlight.

Eager to emulate their favorite television hero, Captain Cosmos, cadets Eagle, Robyn and Hawk zoom off into space - only to encounter powerful solar flares that hurtle them down onto the surface of an unfamiliar planet.

Eagle nominates himself as Class President... only to be challenged by Robyn, who also feels she'd make an effective leader. They agree that the only fair way to decide is to hold an election, so both candidates are soon off and running. Robyn takes a thoughtful approach, analyzing what the Racers can realistically hope to change, while Eagle makes brash, absurd promises.

Eagle, Robyn and Hawk overhear Headmaster Crane talking with Coot about top secret "Project P.S.P.", and how the mission will require a great quantity of ice. Eager to score points with their instructors, the three Space Racers take the initiative to search the Solar System to find whatever ice the Headmaster was referring to.

Things are suddenly going haywire around Stardust Bay: electrical outages, power surges, TV channels changing themselves. Coot is running himself ragged trying to fix and tinker, but to no avail. Headmaster Crane determines a solar storm is the root of the problem.

Utilizing a high-powered telescope, Robyn and Hawk locate a particular destination in space and fly there to seemingly spend some time together without inviting Eagle along. This leaves their friend frustrated and upset at being left out. After a series of fruitless attempts to learn why they went without him, Eagle locates the pair via the same telescope, and decides to secretly follow them.

It's Career Day at the Academy, when the Racers are evaluated for their most suitable future job and given a chance to try it out. To their surprise, Robyn and Eagle find their roles reversed: Eagle is pegged with a "boring" post as a Scientist, and Robyn the "pointless" post of Test Pilot.

A deep space probe, designed to collect data in far off galaxies, prematurely reappears in our Solar System… on a collision course with the Sun. Headmaster Crane knows if it gets too close to the Sun's gravity, the probe and all its collected research will be lost forever, so he assigns Eagle, Robyn and Hawk to intercept it and guide it safely back to Earth.

Watching the Earth from space, Eagle, Robyn and Hawk are enthralled by the beauty of their home planet as seen from a distance. But their wonderment is short-lived when they spot a huge storm front moving along a path directly toward Stardust Bay. Uh oh!

While cleaning up space garbage in low Earth orbit, the Space Racers encounter a remnant from one of Stardust's earliest space programs: Quest One, a ghostly old space station that's long since been decommissioned and presumed lost.

Studying at the Mars campus, Eagle, Robyn and Hawk stumble upon a mysterious old map that seems to reveal a network of Martian canals built by some ancient civilization. If they can find them it would be the discovery of the century, not to mention an A+ presentation in class.

The Racers are on a class trip to Venus not far from a creepy old abandoned space station, rumored to be haunted, in orbit of the planet. In a test of bravado, the kids screw up their courage to enter the dark, scary space station.

During a playfully competitive game of Orb-O above the Moon, Hawk and his friends accidentally damage the solar-powered Lunar Elevator just as it's lifting a group of rockets from the surface up into space - rockets who now find themselves trapped aboard a broken elevator.

Stardust Space Academy is preparing for the "Eclipse Run," a tradition wherein two random students are chosen to race to the Moon and back during the eclipse. As the big day draws near, two Racers are picked: Eagle and… little Starling?!! Eagle is both amused and aghast at the lack of competition.

When Vulture demands that a larger statue of his glorious image be erected on the school campus, the funds must come from somewhere - and the first casualty is the school's large telescope. After all, who needs a "stupid old telescope"? The Space Racers are soaring through space all the time, he reasons; they can see whatever they need to see with their own eyes.

Eagle and friends are creating a garden under a glass dome on the Mars campus. But thanks to an accident while they're playing near Coot's workshop yard during their break, our heroes are relegated to clean-up duty and must collect mounds of junk from upended trash bins.

Young Starling makes a startling discovery one night: Earth's Moon seems to be smaller than the last time she saw it. Can this be? Worried, she begins to chart the state of the Moon every night, which only confirms her worst fears: the Moon is disappearing!

After the Racers are assigned to study an asteroid, nefarious nogoodnik Vulture gives Hawk a secret mission: place a retro rocket on the asteroid to change its trajectory. Keeping any kind of secret from his friends makes Hawk nervous, and Eagle senses something is wrong.

After a spirited Orb-O game in which Eagle displays his usual athleticism (as well as a bit of showboating), Robyn does a scientific analysis of his "patented spin-fling-and-score move," and suggests improvements. Eagle, however, is all about instinct - and wants no part of Robyn's ideas.

While everyone in school learns about our Solar System's many constellations, and how to identify them by their unique shapes, Eagle is resistant. Studying is tedious; he's got "a need for speed!" As always, Eagle would much rather be out soaring through space.

Preparing for the Cloud Sprints Race, Eagle beats everyone else by a mile during a training run. Raven, hoping to cut corners so he can beat perennial winner Eagle, craves a new fuel that will help his engine achieve maximum speed.

During an Orb-O game, a pass goes awry and sends the orb sailing toward the hull of a refueling station - and the light tap unexpectedly sends the entire station hurtling toward Earth! Eagle and friends manage to stop the station. They check it for damage, and it appears to be just fine. Close call. Now all they have to do is put it back where they found it, and no one will be any the wiser.

The cadets and Coot are spending time in Jupiter's orbit to clean up some old space station and rocket junk for recycling, with the help of a new suction harpoon tool. When Raven discovers a new comet that's passing by, Coot suggests collecting a rock sample to learn more about it.