What happens
Buzz Corry and Happy investigate a privately owned space factory in orbit around Venus after complaints about its safety. Space Patrol inspector George Curtis has been filing favorable reports for Vincent Trowbridge, who owns the plant, after Trowbridge pressed him over a debt. Buzz and Happy then visit Stan Larkin's rival factory, where they are caught in a loading chamber as a rapidly expanding plastic called hexaplast threatens to crush them. Their escape leads them to question Trowbridge and the inspection records, and the situation grows more dangerous as the inspection tightens.
Space factories in orbit around the planet Venus, in the year of the United Planets
Characters: Buzz Corry, Happy, George Curtis, Vincent Trowbridge, Stan Larkin, Major Robertson
Listen for: The hexaplast chamber sequence, where Buzz and Happy must free themselves from expanding plastic, and the handling room scene where the gravity field is reversed.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.