Soviets Planned 'Invulnerable' Moon Base

NewsMax ^ | 9/20/04 | Carl Limbacher

[Moonman62]

Crews of four cosmonauts were to spend up to one year on the moon.

Wow, that's one heck of a military base. Four people would have barely been enough to maintain the font balls on their Selectrics.

[MattGarrett]

Details on the US Army's PROJECT HORIZON, a lunar outpost, can be found here.

[RightWhale]

We basically planted our flag on the moon, and own it.

That is only one of the three requiremnts.

[NickRails]

Wow, vintage John Byrne. I wondered what he drew before "Iron Fist" at Marvel.

[martin_fierro]

manned by beautiful but smart women in tight silver catsuits and purple wigs.

Ohh, no need to remind me.

A certain pubescent teen spent many tortured evenings thinking about those violet pageboy haircuts and silver catsuits. < |:)~

[longtermmemmory]

The chinese are still out there.

[BradyLS]

As the Russian planned their base, yes, it probably had little military value. But if you want to know what Robert Heinlein thought about how a base on the moon (and armed with a catapault for slinging rocks) could be used in a war against targets on Earth, I invite you to read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."

[demlosers]

Whoever really gets a base on the moon runs the planet.

UFO aliens Hehee...

[plushaye]

Those catsuits were as sexist as the short skirts on the original Star Trek series, but you're right, they did keep the male viewers happy. ;)

[meowmeow]

[RightWingAtheist]

Wallace and Gromit got there first.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"A certain pubescent teen spent many tortured evenings thinking about those violet pageboy haircuts and silver catsuits. < |:)~"

Is there any greater reason to return to the moon and make this dream happen!

Ad Astra (to the stars)

[traumer]

The Dark Side of the Moon

[NickRails]

I thought that robot was there first.

[traumer]

I wonder if Reagan knew something about that....

[RightWingAtheist]

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/roastars.htm

[tophat9000]

I use to work with an ex USAF guy in telcom network control..his background was satellite control in Colorado Spring... We got to talking late one Fri night grave shift about the moon missions and when I commented that it was sad we hadn't gone back his response was our you sure about that... bottom line he hinted around that there was some US miltary moon mission in the 80's to set up a earth monitoring post ...the moon being the ultimate military high ground to monitor earth from

probably just pulling my leg but food for thought

[RightWingAtheist]

I know. I just couldn't resist making a reference to W & G. Come to think of it, they did meet a robot in that short.

[TeleStraightShooter]

true, and good book.

Nothing like utilizing the earths gravity well to propel moon rock to a velocity of ummmm 5 miles a second?
Resulting in a thermonuclear event sans the lingering radiation.

There's just that pesky problem of catapulting those moon rocks over the gravity well...

[Aquinasfan]

the Soviet project was "tens of times” more expensive than the Apollo project of the United States, which cost $34 billion.

They could have always starved a few million more peasants to finance this insane project.