Editing Space Cadet (section)

== ''Tom Corbett, Space Cadet''==
The novel inspired [[Joseph Greene (writer)|Joseph Greene]] of [[Grosset & Dunlap]] to develop the ''[[Tom Corbett, Space Cadet]]'' comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s. Greene had originally submitted a radio script for "Tom Ranger and the Space Cadets" on January 16, 1946, but it remained unperformed when Heinlein's novel was published. Heinlein influenced the evolution of "Tom Ranger" into "Tom Corbett" and launched his student astronaut title's common mention; they share credit for the popularity of both formal and later slang uses of "space cadet."<ref name=S/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/58/messages/1449.html| title = Phrases.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/space-cadet| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140821202011/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/space-cadet| url-status = dead| archive-date = August 21, 2014| title = Oxforddictionaries.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Space cadet: "1980s+; probably for the 1950s TV program Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, which followed the adventures of a group of teenage cadets at a 24th-century space academy, thought of humorously as being far out, way out, etc."|work=The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition|author=Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD|author2=Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/space+cadet}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title='Space case(s)' as terms used by people "on the street" about each other. Social Problems|volume=24|journal=Society for the Study of Social Problems|date=1976|page=389}}</ref>