"NASA Reveals US Military Plans To Build A Military ..." Topic

…Base On The Moon.

"The United States military once planned to build a surveillance station on the moon.

Code named "Project Horizon," a declassified report released today on the 45th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk outlines the military's detailed plans to install a moon-to-Earth surveillance system that would have been used for "facilitating communications with and observation of the earth." The report that was originally published in 1959 exceeds 100 pages.

Project Horizon also included a proposal to build a moon-based weapons system that would have allowed the military to launch offensives from the moon towards Earth and even into outer space.

The declassified documents also reveal that the military attempted to investigate the effects of detonating a nuclear weapon on and in the vicinity of the moon…"

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Gonna have to compete with the secret Nazi moonbase already there.

That's nothing compared to the Project Orion nuclear-pulse "battleship." Powered by low yield nuclear "bomblets" and armed with multiple nuclear missiles, this beast could theoretically operate from lunar orbit, essentially invulnerable to any Earth-launched attack, while able to rain nuclear destruction down on the enemies of the US. But the plan was really just a military-themed concept to secure continued funding under DARPA for the actual project, which was a nuclear-pulse manned mission to Saturn (and by "manned" I mean the ship was designed for a crew of 40 scientists and operations personnel). The project leaders assumed (incorrectly) that without a significant military version of the craft, they wouldn't get the support of newly elected President Kennedy. They even constructed a scale model of the battleship to show him. He was horrified at the idea, and rejected the entire program outright, presumably without ever hearing the peaceful alternative that was in reality the real project.

Yeah, imagine if they'd presented the Saturn mission instead of the combat program -- might have had bases and colonies across the Solar System by now…

The SyFy Channel just did a "documentary" about aliens on the moon. They mention such a planned base. Among a lot of other things. Even though Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Ed Mitchell were interview a number of times as well as other experts(?) … I think it is as much fiction as fact. Or more ! You can see it again On Demand if your cable provider has that feature. Very entertaining IMO … much better than Sharknado, Sharktapus, Megashark and that such drivel the SyFy channel is noted for … Some "interesting" pics seen in the "documentary" … link

Some believe its already been done, though it's not clear if by humans, or aliens.

It's aliens !!