“The program to
establish a lunar base must not be delayed and the initial base design must
meet military requirements. For example, the base should be designed as a
permanent installation, it should be underground, it should strive to be
completely self-supporting, and it should provide suitable accommodations to support
extended tours of duty. “Based on present knowledge, the study has concluded
that it is technically feasible to establish a manned base on the moon. This is
not meant to imply that the equipment’s are available, or the techniques are
completely known.”
Classified Project Horizon,
The day began for Admiral Wylan Fitzgerald as most did. A
cup of coffee and a briefing from his assistant 1st Lt. Dawson. He
could never remember Dawson’s first name so he just called him Dawson. Watching
as the junior officer made him breakfast, he again looked over the classified
Project Horizon folder. In his wildest dreams he never imagined he would be a
part of such a lofty operation. The fact that he could not tell anyone outside
the newly formed agency that would oversee Project Horizon was going to be
difficult. His fiancée Beverly Woods worked for the Army to. But the directive
had been a direct order. No others except those directly involved in the
project were to be informed until the base was completed. Then the Department
of Defense would notify the President and Congress. Then choice to tell the
American people would be the last one made.
Leafing through the folder he was awestruck. A lunar base on
the moon. He’d never dreamed that it would ever be possible. The thought that
the Army, his Army was giving serious thought to this was overwhelming. “Technically
feasible” the words echoed in head as he read. The United States government was
going to establish a lunar base on the Moon by the end of next year.
Project Horizon was going to be a massive operation. Looking
up at the calendar he realized that he would not have time to spend with
Beverly during the upcoming Christmas Holiday Season. He and a team of two astronauts
would be headed to the moon to begin work on the new base.
His first mission was to ensure that military regulations
were carried out in the design of the new outpost. He also was to make sure
that the base was self-supporting so that it could become a permanent installation. The Army and NASA had scrapped plans to detonate
a nuclear device on the Moon once it was established that doing so could affect
the orbit of Earth.
Reaching out he touched the new uniform he was given on
yesterday he rubbed in hand over his name that was monogramed patch on the
pocket. The patch that was designed by the Army and NASA, a rocket with the
words Reeves Lunar Base was in gold lettering along with the NASA logo. Smiling,
Admiral Wallace Charles London, was struck by a feeling euphoria he was going
to be the first Commander of the Reeves Lunar Base on the Moon.
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