Seeing all this from the Great Glass Elevator, Charlie suggests that he and his companions tow the shuttle back to Earth, as Wonka had anticipated such an event and made the Great Glass Elevator impervious to Knid attacks, or "Knidproof".
The Knids dive-bomb the shuttle, destroying the rockets, cameras, and radio antenna, apparently stranding the occupants in space. and Charlie's family.Upon the Elevator's departure, the staff and astronauts go aboard, and the Knids consume twenty-four of the staff, while the others escape. The other weakness of the Knids is that they are show-offs, and could not resist signaling their victims with the word "SCRAM" prior to their attempt to eat Charlie, Wonka. Wonka also explains that the Knids have tried to invade Earth and consume its inhabitants like they have done with many other planets but they have two weaknesses, one is that they cannot invade Earth due to the atmosphere protecting the planet, and that Knids foolish enough to attempt this get burnt up in the sky, which are often thought of as shooting stars. Wonka tells the others, are predatory extraterrestrials called Vermicious Knids, waiting in the Space Hotel to consume its staff and guests. Wonka orders everybody off the Space Hotel. In the midst of this, the hotel's own elevators open, revealing five gigantic amoeba-like monsters, which change shape: each forming a letter of the word 'SCRAM'. On the Hotel, Wonka and the others hear the President address them across a radio link as Martians, and Wonka therefore teases Gilligrass with nonsense words and grotesque poetry. Cabinet see the Elevator dock with the Space Hotel, and fear it contains hostile agents of a foreign or extraterrestrial government, while the space shuttle containing the hotel staff and three astronauts approaches the Space Hotel. Gilligrass, Vice President Elvira Tibbs, the president's best friend, chiefs, and the U.S. In the White House, President Lancelot R. Grandma Georgina was very stubborn so she grabbed mr Wonka by his coattails and she yanked him backwards. As a result, the Elevator goes into orbit, where Wonka docks them at a Space Hotel. The height to which the Elevator ascends frightens Charlie's family sending the Elevator in the wrong direction. The story picks up immediately where the previous book left off, with Charlie and his whole family aboard the flying Great Glass Elevator, en route to the Chocolate Factory which Mr.