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Soviets Planned 'Invulnerable' Moon Base
NewsMax ^ | 9/20/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 09/20/2004 5:39:43 PM PDT by wagglebee

In the days of the Cold War, Soviet commanders and their best scientists were working on a project to build military headquarters on the moon, the Novaya Gazeta weekly reports.

The paper writes that the lunar base project was developed 30 years ago and was abolished only because of its enormous cost.

The newspaper cited Aleksandr Yegorov, deputy general designer of the General Machine Building Design Bureau (the name of the bureau suggests that it deals with top secret military projects) as saying that he personally took part in the development of the lunar base project.

Soviet scientists considered the moon to be a very good place for a strategic headquarters as nuclear strikes on its surface would lose most of their destructive force. As the moon has no atmosphere, no shockwave could spread there and the radioactive dust would immediately fall out back on the surface without an atmosphere to carry it.

The designer also said that the USA had also developed a lunar base project and the Soviet scientists had been aware of these plans.

Yegorov said that the Soviet Union had planned to put two spaceships into orbit and assemble them into a single station that would fly to the moon. At first the lunar settlers were to live in moving shelters and later a stationary base was to be built.

Crews of four cosmonauts were to spend up to one year on the moon. To make the base habitable it would have been furnished with water and air purification systems and even a special space greenhouse.

The project was abolished only due to its enormous cost, Yegorov said. According to him, the Soviet project was "tens of times” more expensive than the Apollo project of the United States, which cost $34 billion.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: coldwar; moon; sovietunion; spacetravel; toutatis
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To: Aquinasfan

(s)AHA! now we know why Bush wants to steal Iraq's oil. He wants Haliburton to build the moon base!(/s)


41 posted on 09/20/2004 6:20:52 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! NOV 2, 2004 is VETERANS DAY! VOTE!)
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To: 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. ;)

Scottie, beam me down to the planet of scantily clad, bikini-wearing, buxom women immediately!

42 posted on 09/20/2004 6:21:39 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: wagglebee

The Soviets "planned" a lot of things.


43 posted on 09/20/2004 6:22:29 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: plushaye

The short skirt on Star Trek were not sexist. They were the fashion of the 60's.


44 posted on 09/20/2004 6:26:25 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! NOV 2, 2004 is VETERANS DAY! VOTE!)
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To: RightWhale

We need to do the rest.


45 posted on 09/20/2004 6:28:19 PM PDT by Kornev
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To: wagglebee
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; - From IF by Kipling

The Russian people fell into this trap for 80 years.

46 posted on 09/20/2004 6:30:46 PM PDT by DManA
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To: martin_fierro

Jeeze, Barabra Bain, et. al. certainly took themselves seriesly! I can count on zero hands the number of times they even smiled.

In real life, humans fall back on humor, even gallows humor, to survive.

I would have spaced the lot of 'em.


47 posted on 09/20/2004 6:30:50 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (<font type=1972 IBM>I <change typeballs>am<change typeballs> Buckhead)
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To: longtermmemmory

Yes, I remember, but not as military uniforms for women at that time or any other time.



48 posted on 09/20/2004 6:32:07 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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To: longtermmemmory
The short skirt on Star Trek were not sexist. They were the fashion of the 60's.

*sigh*


49 posted on 09/20/2004 6:32:15 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (<font type=1972 IBM>I <change typeballs>am<change typeballs> Buckhead)
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To: wagglebee

I understand that former Presidential candidate Dennis Kasinich was going to be the commander of the moon base.

heh heh.


50 posted on 09/20/2004 6:32:54 PM PDT by JediForce (PAJAMA WEARING SCUMBAG PATRIOT. Beware the Dark Side of the Force.)
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To: martin_fierro

51 posted on 09/20/2004 6:33:49 PM PDT by al baby (she stuned my little beeber)
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To: al baby

There you go! I still like that series although I do wince at the catsuits and purple wigs. The women were all smart and technical types, and the commander of moonbase was a woman. It was ahead of its time in many ways by that.


52 posted on 09/20/2004 6:37:12 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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To: Ford Fairlane

Glad to be your second opinion!


53 posted on 09/20/2004 6:41:13 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: al baby

Awwwwwww yeeeeaaaaah. Tha's what I'm talkin' 'bout.


54 posted on 09/20/2004 6:44:48 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Fred Mertz is THE MAN.)
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To: RightWingAtheist

Which movie was first-- and more convincing? Heinlein's "Destination: Moon" or the Soviet "Road to the Stars?"


55 posted on 09/20/2004 6:46:38 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: plushaye

56 posted on 09/20/2004 6:47:47 PM PDT by al baby (she stuned my little beeber)
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To: JediForce
I understand that former Presidential candidate Dennis Kasinich was going to be the commander of the moon base.

Why would he wanna come all the way back from Mars just to be the commander of a stinkin' Moon base?

57 posted on 09/20/2004 6:52:08 PM PDT by Erasmus
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To: al baby

(SID)"Drool alert... drool alert... this is no drill."(/SID)


58 posted on 09/20/2004 6:52:08 PM PDT by Jonah Hex (Free Republic... Afflicting the Media Since 1998)
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To: Jonah Hex
ck this out

http://ufoseries.com/movieClips/opening.mov

59 posted on 09/20/2004 6:55:50 PM PDT by al baby (she stuned my little beeber)
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To: TeleStraightShooter
There's just that pesky problem of catapulting those moon rocks over the gravity well...

According to the book, Earth's gravity "well" is guarded by the gravity "curb" of the moon. If you can get that rock past the pull of the moon's gravity, then the Earth does all the remaining work in accelerating the rock to 11km/sec until it smacks her own surface.

60 posted on 09/20/2004 6:57:16 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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