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A lunar colony, founded in 1654 by a Dutchman, an Englishman, an Italian, and "their women", threatens Earth with heat-ray doom unless it helps them escape their dying world. Earthlight (1955) by Arthur C. Clarke. A settlement on the Moon becomes caught in the crossfire of a war between Earth and a federation of Mars and Venus.
One of the last such stories was William F. Temple's 1966 novel Shoot at the Moon; following the actual first Moon landing by Apollo 11 in 1969, stories of fictional first Moon landings fell out of favour to be replaced by stories of lunar colonization. [1] [3] [5] Fictional first Moon landings also appeared in film in this era.
US sends a married couple to live on the Moon and operate a weather station close to a nearby Soviet lunar base. Couples have a space race to see who will have the first "Moon baby". [23] [24] Project Settlement: Perkins, Cmdr. Unnamed crew Project Rescue: Steve (no last name given) Unnamed crew Night Gallery The Nature of the Enemy (1970), TV
A fictional county in Alabama, used to conceal true crime locations Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin "ihp" & various SCP Foundation: Sloth's Pit was originally called New Toronto, also known as Nexus-18. It is a rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. It was renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and ...
In the years ahead, the U.S. space agency hopes to establish a lunar settlement on the south polar region, using the region's abundant water ice for drinking, breathing and as a source of hydrogen ...
This is a list of fictional spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction. The term " spacecraft " is mainly used to refer to spacecraft that are real or conceived using present technology.
The space exploration company, founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in 2000, has laid out plans for bringing larger payloads to the lunar surface — which is a precursor to human settlements, it says.
After spending five years in semi-stealth mode, a San Francisco venture called the Open Lunar Foundation is talking about its plan to create a settlement on the moon at a cost in the range of $5 ...