Project Horizon: America's Cold War Moon Base (Almost) -- Colin's Last Stand (Episode 17)
In 1959, the American Department of Defense wrote more than 400 classified pages investigating whether it could build a fully functioning lunar base by 1966. This is the story of Project Horizon.
Project Horizon's Declassified Reports:
Part I: http://www.history.army.mil/faq/horizon/Horizon_V1.pdf
Part II: http://www.history.army.mil/faq/horizon/Horizon_V2.pdf
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Still images in this video were acquired from the following sources, for which Colin's Last Stand is thankful: Den of Geeks, History.com, IGN, NASA, Wikimedia, and Wikipedia.
Bibliography/Reading List:
Explorer I Details: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/explorer-overview.html
NASA Estabilshed: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nasa-established
Project Horizon Has Been Declassified: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/#_ednref2
Sputnik I Details: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_924.html
Sputnik II Details: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1957-002A
The Manhattan Project Details: https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project
The Soviet Union's Lunar Plans: http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a19405/ussr-1960s-lunar-base/
What Happened to Laika?: http://time.com/3546215/laika-1957/