Admiral Dome has made a career out of convincing the Small Council to fund far-out, wacky projects, but the 2XL+ Space Station was beyond even his imagination when it was introduced last year. He might still have a little chip on his shoulder about that...

Behind Dome, his Avian passenger is some kind of High Security Guard who, rather than being on duty, had requested the 2XL+ Orange Drive Test to use up some of his mounting vacation time.

As a popular poet, Shane had dreamed of space travel ever since he became Small. He would later report that real space was not nearly as majestic nor inspirational as his series of sonnets Throw My Parts Into Astral Wind may have whimsically implied.

Dr. Bushyhead, in the background, is famous and thus needs no introduction.

Vlad, the ex-Soviet Space Ape, was more than at home in the reduced gravity of the 2XL+. Logs of his early trips into Small Space are required reading at the Smallonaut Academy.

General Lion was more than a little nervous about being on board a toy space station for the test flight of a radical new propulsion system, but it was good for his District, and it was an election season.

Officer Tang, far back, works for the Dept. of Maintenance and War as a science consultant. He had to pull a lot of strings to get here...

Sub-Commander Hogg was selected from a random pool of 3 3/4 inch figures, mostly as a media stunt. It took a lot of convincing to get him out of the shuttle.

The always silent Constable Shving, azure alien from a distant galaxy, was chosen to represent the Novelty Toys, without whom the 2XL+ would be nothing, indeed.