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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: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
Nyet...

Space Ping! This is the Space Ping List! Let me know if you want on or off this list!
61 posted on 09/20/2004 6:59:12 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: al baby

The moonbase girls remind me of Holly, the ship's computer's "face" on the BBC comedy "Red Dwarf."


62 posted on 09/20/2004 6:59:46 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: z3n
Aliens can travel all the way to the moon, but don't seem to make it to earth.

Ah, but you see in "Space: 1999" the moon was no longer in orbit about the Earth.

63 posted on 09/20/2004 7:05:57 PM PDT by whd23
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To: freedumb2003

"Kirk to Enterprise... Send down Yeoman Rand and a six-pack"


64 posted on 09/20/2004 7:09:06 PM PDT by Mr. K
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To: BradyLS
The moonbase girls remind me of Holly, the ship's computer's "face" on the BBC comedy "Red Dwarf."

You are strange and off-putting.

Red Dwarf's Holly

65 posted on 09/20/2004 7:12:26 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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To: traumer
The Dark Side of the Moon

"There is no dark side of the moon really...as a matter of fact it's all dark."

66 posted on 09/20/2004 7:20:45 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: wagglebee

interesting


67 posted on 09/20/2004 7:21:24 PM PDT by yonif ("So perish all Thine enemies, O the Lord" - Judges 5:31)
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To: al baby

I don't think this made an episode 'cos I don't remember seeing it but I heard about this clipping. Commander Ellis was portrayed as beautiful and intelligent in most of the eps though. She was treated with respect by her peers. Kind of like Major Samantha Carter of Stargate SG-1 for her time (35 years ago).

I guess my point about Moonbase was that Gerry Anderson's portrayal of life in a moonbase military installation seemed advanced for its time. Or maybe it was just a reflection of the scientific and military dreams of the US and Soviet Union at that time.


68 posted on 09/20/2004 7:25:28 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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To: wagglebee

Too bad they couldn't plan an invulnerable country...


69 posted on 09/20/2004 7:26:52 PM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: al baby

God bless Gerry & Sylvia Anderson.


70 posted on 09/20/2004 7:32:14 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Oztrich Boy
I think he meant Holly, Mark II.


71 posted on 09/20/2004 7:35:00 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Oztrich Boy

What?!?!? No way! Just saw an episode the other night. They had a chick! (But all you see is her face.) Must be some sort of Red Dwarf joke... LOL!


72 posted on 09/20/2004 7:37:24 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

'Zackly.


73 posted on 09/20/2004 7:37:47 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Boundless

Red Star in Orbit is a brilliant book, sadly it is out of print, but I re-read my copy from time to time...


74 posted on 09/20/2004 7:42:19 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Everybody wants prostethic foreheads on their real heads...)
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To: BradyLS

I think he knew it too. He was just bein' a smart ass.


75 posted on 09/20/2004 7:42:37 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yup. Fairly zinged.


76 posted on 09/20/2004 7:45:14 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: HitmanNY
Too bad they couldn't plan an invulnerable country...

You forgot to add /sarcasm

77 posted on 09/20/2004 7:45:42 PM PDT by wagglebee (Benedict Arnold was for American independence before he was against it.)
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To: wagglebee
Soviet commanders and their best scientists were working on a project to build military headquarters on the moon,

Had one all prefabbed up in the backyard. Couldn't get it through the side gate, though.

78 posted on 09/20/2004 7:50:06 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: BradyLS

Destination: Moon came first. I haven't seen Road to the Stars, and as far as I know, it hasn't been shown in the United States for about forty years.


79 posted on 09/20/2004 8:06:10 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>disingenuous filmmaker</A>)
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To: whd23
Aliens can travel all the way to the moon, but don't seem to make it to earth.

Ah, but you see in "Space: 1999" the moon was no longer in orbit about the Earth.

OMG! 70's flashbacks!!!
ahahhahhh!!!
*runs away clasping skull*
80 posted on 09/20/2004 8:29:57 PM PDT by z3n
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