Shackleton International Lunar Station

The **Shackleton International Lunar Station (SILS)** is a United States scientific research station located on the southern pole of the Moon. It is the southernmost point under the jurisdiction (not sovereignty) of the United States.

**Moonbase Alpha** is an British-American adventure science fiction drama television series that follows the inhabitants of a moonbase on the Earth's Moon that was inexplicably pulled out of orbit by an unknown extrasolar source and taken on a journey throughout the cosmos.

This series is a remake of the British television series Space: 1999 that ran from 1975-1977.

## Contents

* 1Characters
* 2Factions
* 3Episode Guide
	+ 3.1Season 1
	+ 3.2Season 2
	+ 3.3Season 3
	+ 3.4Season 4
	+ 3.5Later seasons
* 4List of Moonbases
* 5Suggestions

## Characters

1. Commissioner Gerald Simmonds- British chairman of the International Lunar Finance Commission.
2. Commander Anton Gorski- Russian former commanding officer of Moonbase Alpha.
3. Commander John Koenig- American commanding officer of Moonbase Alpha. Cool, calm, witty, and intelligent.
4. Paul Morrow- British base executive officer and Main Mission controller, second-in-command.
5. Captain Alan Carter- Australian chief pilot and third-in-command.
6. Pilot Bill Fraser- American co-pilot with Carter.
7. Professor Victor Bergman- British chief science advisor on Moonbase Alpha.
8. David Kano- American data technician and member of Bergman's science and tech team.
9. Doctor Helena Russell- American chief medical officer on Moonbase Alpha
10. Doctor Bob Mathias- American deputy at Medical Section.
11. Tony Verdeschi- American head of security and Command Center controller.
12. Sandra Benes- Asian-American data analyst.
13. Tanya Alexander- American base operations officer.

## Factions

* Lunar Space Research Organization (LSRO)
* Moonbase Alpha

### Season 1

1. "Out of Orbit." 2 hour pilot. New commander, Patrick Osgood mining in the catacombs discovers alien object, Moon pulled out of orbit by space warps. Tony/Koenig navigate ahead. Meta probe. Encounter WAR GAMES. Near a black hole, what wonders lie out there?
2. "INFERNAL MACHINE" Gwent, Companion. "lonely, blind creature looking for death"
3. "FORCE OF LIFE" Body snatcher, wants heat, nuclear reactor
4. "RING AROUND THE MOON" Aliens want info, non corporeal, use Helena
5. "MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH" Lush earth-like world, Astro 7 mission, lost 5 years ago, Lee Russell returns, he's an apparition, not real just a mechinazations of the planet.
6. "SEED OF DESTRUCTION" Koenig duplicate on a crystal asteroid
7. "BRIAN THE BRAIN" Star mission, 300 Swifts, lost 4 years ago, Planet D, Capt. Michael, for 88 years.
8. "SEANCE SPECTRE" Group wants to inhabit new earth-like world without the moon personnel. Coup!
9. "EARTHBOUND" Alien refugees from a dying world, offer 1 person in a lotto, Simmonds forces himself to go, the lotto picked him anyway, irony. Mid-season finale.
10. "MISSING LINK/FULL CIRCLE" 2 million years ago, Stone Age 40,000 years ago, Missing Link in planets evolution. Zenna/Retha designation. Koenig captured. Paul/Sandra breakup, she's seeing Alan now.
11. "LAST SUNSET" Alien benefactors terraform the Moon ephemerally.
12. "ANOTHER PLACE, ANOTHER TIME" Space-time anomaly. Re-enter sol sys, double moons, Future Alphans (10 years from now?) Alpha Child, 9 months since leaving Earth orbit, 250 days ago.

### Season 2

1. "COLLISION COURSE" Crash into an alien world, designated Atheria.
2. "MISSION OF THE DARIANS" 20 square km starship. 50,000 crew. 14 senior staff. Lie! 1 year since leaving Earth orbit (360 days).
3. "TAYBOR" The trader, introduce the Dorcons, S.S. Emporium.
4. "VOYAGER'S RETURN" Radiation exhaust. Killed lots. 15 years ago. Queller Drive. Pursuit of knowledge. Voyager probes, rename!
5. "TESTAMENT OF ARKADIA" Ancient astronauts. Leave 2 people and some others behind with a couple Eagles. Finale of S2. Getting closer to whatever pulled them from orbit.

### Season 3

* "JOURNEY TO WHERE" Transmission from Earth on an interstellar ansible from Texas City 2200 (2120 in '70s version) Accidentally sent back to 13xx.
* "DRAGON'S DOMAIN" Tony Cellini. Ultra probe launched 3 years prior to leaving Earth orbit for a 7 month trip. Interplanetary spacecraft. Mission mystery, think he killed his crewmates. 877 days since leaving orbit.

### Season 4

* "BRINGERS OF WONDER" Super-Swift with friends and family aboard. Hideous telepathic entities. 2 part?

### Later seasons

* "METAMORPH" Encounter Maya, Psycon
* "DORZAK" Other survivors of her planets collapse
* "DORCONS" Archenemy of the series

## List of Moonbases

1. Moonbase Alpha (First built, international moonbase). 311 personnel.
2. Moonbase Bravo (Brazil). 340 personnel.
3. Moonbase Charlie (Chinese). 800 personnel.
4. Moonbase Echo (European). 9,000 personnel.
5. Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost (American). 200 people.
6. Sea of Tranquility City (Multi-national). 120,000 people.
7. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Lunar Complex (India). 17,000 personnel.
8. Tsukiyomi Station (Under construction by Japan). 30,000 personnel.
9. Tycho City (Multi-national). 55,000 people.
10. Vega Aerospace Colonial Settlement X-562A (Recently completed, Private). 70 personnel.
11. Yuri Gagarin Star City (Russia). 10,000 personnel.

Total population on the Moon: 242,721. (A quarter of a million people on the Moon in the mid-late 21st century)

## Suggestions

* http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/03/10-ways-to-make-a-kick-ass-version-of-space1999
* https://space2049.com/2016/11/30/its-time-for-a-new-look-at-space-1999/
* https://space2049.com/space2049theseries/
* https://space2049.com/the-series-bible/
* https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/index.html
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbase\_Alpha\_(video\_game)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:\_1999
* http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Space1999
* http://collider.com/space-2099/

## Jamestown

* 1990s
* 1980s
* 1970s

## Station Details

### Purpose

Research

Exploration

Mining

### Facilities

Crew quarters

Research facilities

Several landing sites

Mining sites

Rocket testing site

## Station patch

**Jamestown** is NASA's base station on the Moon. It was established in October 1973 on the rim of Shackleton Crater near the lunar south poleW, not far from the landing site of *Seahawk*, the lunar module of Apollo 15. Being capable of housing 3 astronauts at the beginning, it grew continuously over the years and can now accommodate several dozen people. By 1994, it includes several mining and construction facilities. The base is designed to be a settlement and research station for astronauts on routine trips to the Moon.

## Contents

* 1History
	+ 1.11970s
	+ 1.21980s
	+ 1.31990s
* 2Features
* 3Missions & crew
* 4Galleries
	+ 4.1Progression
	+ 4.2Patches
	+ 4.3Behind the scenes
* 5Videos
* 6Trivia
* 7See also
* 8References

## History

### 1970s

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The base was launched by a modified Saturn V rocket and landed on the Moon on October 12th, 1973. The four descent engines, located on the sides of the base to help it land properly, were repurposed from the lunar modules, as well as the RCS thrusters. It was first occupied by the crew of Apollo 21, Molly Cobb, Robert CrippenW, and Joseph EngleW.

Jamestown was equipped with three bunk beds for the crew, lockers for personal belongings, a kitchen, a shower, a small lab, a board for planning new missions, and a video communication system by which the astronauts were able to talk with Mission Control and their relatives back on Earth.

### 1980s

By 1983, Jamestown had undergone two expansions, being carried mostly by the Sea Dragon, NASA's new super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The expansions included new living quarters, several rovers, and nuclear power supply. The large phase III expansion was controversial, after it was made public that the launch was carrying more plutonium for the base's nuclear power source. This mission also secretly carried a second reactor intended to make weapons grade plutonium.

New crews varied between 4 and 5 personnel who stayed at the base for 6 month, resulting in dozens of astronauts living at the station at any time. Crew rotations were carried by Space Shuttles, which had replaced the Apollo program from the 70s.

On May 1983, the biggest solar flare event ever registered hit Earth and subsequently also the Moon. All astronauts had to seek shelter in the base' underground bunker, those too far away to make it in time as deep as possible in a fitting lava tubeW. During the event, Molly Cobb and ESA astronaut Wubbo Ockels were exposed to high radiation for a prolonged amount of time, after Wubbo crashed his roving vehicle and was rescued by Molly.

In fall 1983, an attack on the base by Soviet cosmonauts almost destroyed the base when damage to the reactor almost caused a meltdown, only prevented by the heroic sacrifice of Gordo and Tracy Stevens.

### 1990s

By 1992, Jamestown had undergone a large amount of extra expansions, as well as a hotfire testing ground for testing new rockets engines, including the K-32 NERVA for NASA's planned mission to Mars. Technicians were later sent to oversee the repair of the K-32 engine. This involved replacing it with a niobium alloyW nozzle that would cool more effectively in the vacuum of space. This radiative cooling design would be optimal, as long as the nozzle wall thickness was within correct tolerances - too much could be lost in translation.

Beside the Sea Dragon, the new second generation Pathfinder shuttles were used to carry cargo to the colony, while the first generation Space Shuttles were still in use for periodic crew rotations.

In fall 1994, NASA's *Sojourner 1* spacecraft launched from Jamestown for its journey to the red planet.

## Features

The base features multiple crew facilities, spread out through the base. Many of them are inside the connecting hallways between modules. Many research facilities are also located in the base. The central module contains the Commander’s office, communications equipment, and general systems for the base, as well as the base’s two nuclear reactors. Looking over the external facilities is the Control Room, which houses major equipment for the outpost and commands the mining operation in Shackleton Crater. Other facilities include warm showers, a garage, workshop, galleys, and exercise equipment.

Outside the pressurized portion of the base, several landing sites were built to land the LSAMs, among other craft. A large landing site is built specifically for the *Sojourner* spacecraft. Large solar fields are spread out through the hills around the base. Near the base houses the Jamestown Rocket Testing Site, which did a hot fire test of the K-32 NERVA in 1992.

## Galleries

Jamestown base landing on the Moon

Location of the US & USSR Moon bases

Jamestown and Earth in the sky

Jamestown at night

Signpost on the Moon

### Progression

Jamestown base after landing, Oct. 1973

Jamestown base 1974

Jamestown base 1974

Jamestown base 1983

Jamestown base 1983

Jamestown & landing sites, 1983

Jamestown control room, 1983

Jamestown base 1992

Jamestown base 1994, before launch to Mars

Jamestown Rocket Testing Site

One of at least 4 landing sites

Sojourner landing site

### Patches

Jamestown Patch used in the 70s and 80s

"Linus of Jamestown" patch, 1983

Jamestown 1992 Patch

Jamestown 1994 Patch

Moon Marines Patch

Alvarez Station Patch

Arcos Lunar Fuel Depot Patch

### Behind the scenes

Jamestown model

Layout for future modules

Concept art of the 80s configuration of Jamestown Base

## Videos

For All Mankind — Tour of Jamestown Lunar Base

## Trivia

In the science-fiction series *The ExpanseW*, there is a hidden reference to the *For All Mankind* Jamestown base. In episode 1 of season 5 of the series, character Amos Burton visits Luna, Earth's colony on the Moon, in the year 2355. While walking through a tunnel, an advertising is popping up on the wall, reading: "Explore historic Jamestown Base, est. 1973".

## See also

* Linus of Jamestown
* Jamestown crisis
* Attack on Jamestown
* Jamestown Rocket Testing Site
* Shackleton Crater
* Zvezda
* Race to the Moon
* Moon