I’ve always had a fascination with the moon and on last year
when the government released declassified documents on a proposed moon base. I
was over the “moon” to say the lease with story idea after reading the declassified
document.
Code named
"Project Horizon," a declassified report released today on the 45th
anniversary of Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk outlines the military's
detailed plans to install a moon-to-Earth surveillance system that would have
been used for "facilitating communications with and observation of the
earth." The report that was originally published in 1959 exceeds 100
pages. Project Horizon was a 1959 study by the US Army to establish a fort on
the Moon by the year I was born 1967. A
German rocket engineer Heinz-Hermann Koelle led the study. The first people to
be part of the fort would be two soldier-astronauts who would land in 1965 and
soon more people would follow by 1966 all the cargo, and workers would be in
place and colonization of the Moon by 16 soldier would began. (ABC NEWS)
I have taken the idea and the concept a little further in
the story that I am developing. My story would open in 2007 exactly 40 years
from the establishment of Ft. Jemison. Many of the problems of living on the
moon have been solved but moon dust storms are still a problem for residents. The
now colonized moon has an estimated 28,000 people living and working together. Man
and unmanned trips to the moon are now a regular occurrence. Tourism is one the
biggest industry.
I am excited about this book idea so join me as I plot twist
and turn to Project Horizon.
Abby
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