Editing Space Cadet (section)

== In popular culture ==
The ''[[Tom Corbett, Space Cadet]]'' television series and radio show made "space cadet" a household phrase. By 1955, [[Jackie Gleason]] spoke the phrase on ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' television show in an episode called "TV or Not to TV," original airdate October 1, 1955.

The popular meanings of "space cadet" later shifted in popular culture away from astronaut-in-training to indicate, by the 1960s, an "eccentric person disconnected with reality" (often implying an intimacy with hallucinogenic drugs) although by the 2010s, drug use was rarely implied by this phrase, nor was low intelligence implied; "space cadet" was more simply associated with "spacing out," wandering from present concerns, especially of others present, and being a "space case." Both the "trainee astronaut" and "person regarded as being out of touch with reality" entered the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', though by 2014 Oxford noted that, in American English, the phrase had also recouped the positive connotations originally meant by Heinlein and Joseph Greene, the ''Tom Corbett, Space Cadet'' writer: "An enthusiast for space travel, typically a young person."