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America’s forgotten plan to militarize the moon, inside Project Horizon and the 1966 lunar outpost deadline

In 1959, the US Army quietly drafted Project Horizon, a detailed blueprint for a self sufficient lunar outpost built for science, deterrence, and survival. Long before Apollo, it imagined nuclear ...
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Moon’s slow shrinkage may trigger risk for future lunar bases

The Moon is slowly shrinking as its interior cools, and that contraction is generating faults and seismic activity in the very region where NASA plans to land astronauts. A study published in The ...