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Moonbase One
Moonbase One was damaged. A meteorite from deep space
smashed through one of the two radio dishes on
of the
habitation dome. The dish now looked a
broken plate; not functioning well, but well enough to send a distress call for help;
and
edge of a
could see a gash in the ground
had
Murphy thought, ‘but we were lucky’. His eyes
had been dispatched. Astronaut Murphy stood on the
of a low plateau beside Moonbase. From there, he
the dome where the meteorite
to rest. ‘Damaged dish and another crater in the moon,’
to Moonbase
itself. To Murphy, Moonbase’s dome (the ‘Hab’, they called it) always seemed a
half-buried helmet. ‘Here live giants’, he
could see the base’s
painted a different primary colour. They held gases needed
the Hab. From his lookout, Murphy
fancifully. To his right,
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a good view of the arrival
of the supply rocketship. Its six landing legs made it
like a
one-eyed octopus, hanging in
. Moon dust billowed under it,
away by the flaming .
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