The day after Roswell by Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes

The day after Roswell by Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes

Author:Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Memorias, Crónica
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 1997-07-01T05:00:00+00:00


Chapter 11

Project Moon Base

“I ENVISION EXPEDITIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSAL TO establish a lunar outpost to be of critical importance to the U.S. Army of the future. This evaluation is apparently shared by the Chief of Staff in view of his expeditious approval and enthusiastic endorsement of initiation of the study”, General Trudeau wrote to the chief of ordnance in March 1959, in support of the army's “Project HORIZON”[17], a strategic plan for deploying a military outpost on the surface of the moon… It was the army's most ambitious response to the threat from extraterrestrials and, by the time I arrived at the Pentagon, it was one of the projects that General Trudeau had handed off to me to get moving.

“The boys at NASA are taking over the whole rocket launching business, Phil”, he said. “And the army's not even getting the scraps left on the table”.



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