"ALTERNATIVE 3" LUNAR TRANSFER BASE DISASTER
"ALTERNATIVE 3" LUNAR TRANSFER BASE DISASTER Copied below is most of the text of the final chapter of the book "Alternative 3", by Leslie Watkins, David Ambrose, and Christopher Miles, 1978, Sphere Books Limited, . This is NOT fiction. SECTION FOURTEEN They call it Archimedes Base. And that's where the trouble, the really big trouble, flared so violently. Archimedes is a walled crater-plain on the western border of the Mare Imbrium, the Moon's " Sea of Shadows ". It has a diameter of about 50 miles and, unlike the nearby Aristillus crater, it has a relatively smooth ground surface. That is why, according to information from Trojan, it was developed as the principal transit camp on the Moon - the p...