Sci-Fi

By 1999, a human colony had been built on the Moon (you remember, right?).  Moonbase Alpha safeguarded all the nuclear waste shipped from Earth, and carried out research.  Then, on September 13, 1999, disaster struck when the nuclear waste exploded in a chain reaction, and the Moon was blasted out of Earth's orbit, into deep space.  Thus began the adventures of Space:1999.  Space:1999 was a British produced science fiction television series that aired from late 1975 to early 1977, and for us science fiction fans, there was nothing else like it on TV at the time.  The workhorse of Moonbase Alpha was the Eagle spacecraft.  Eagle spacecraft were cleverly designed, modular utility ships (like the Huey helicopters of the day), and were used for work tasks and in various configurations to transport personnel and cargo around the Moon and the planets the Moonbase Alpha crew came across in their travels.