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America’s secret 1958 plan for an underground moon base, the Air Force’s lunar project that Apollo replaced

In 1958, the US Air Force drafted a top secret blueprint for an underground lunar base, aiming to seize the Moon as strategic high ground before the Soviet Union could. The plan promised a crewed ...
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Project Horizon and the Cold War moon base, the US Army’s 1959 plan for a nuclear powered lunar outpost and atomic defense

In 1959, the U.S. Army quietly drafted Project Horizon, a detailed blueprint for a 12 man lunar outpost powered by nuclear reactors and built to hold the strategic high ground. This story traces how ...
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NASA’s Artemis II reaches the launch pad and the countdown to the Moon begins

NASA’s Artemis II rocket has reached its launch pad after a painstaking overnight crawl across Kennedy Space Center.
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Nasa rolls out rocket for first mission in decades to take crew around moon

Nasa has begun rolling out a rocket in its mission to take astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 ...