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    Moon Hab: Lunar Series, #1
    Moon Hab: Lunar Series, #1
    Moon Hab: Lunar Series, #1
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    Moon Hab: Lunar Series, #1

    By D.W. Patterson

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    Moon Hab: A Short Story

     

    Circling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.

    It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.

    And life-threatening.

    Moon Hab is a short story in the The Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series.

     

    The Remembered Earth Universe covers the science and technology of the next hundred years, as mankind moves into cislunar space (defined as that space in and around the Earth-Moon system and slightly beyond), and takes tentative steps to destinations further.
     

    Lunar Series suggested reading order:

     

    Moon Hab: A Short Story

    Moon 3D: A Novella

    Moon Miner: A Short Story

    Moon Town: A Novella

    Moon Power

    Moon Rail

    Moon Nuke

    Moon Plex


    Hard Science Fiction – Old School.

    Human-Generated-Content.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFuture Chron Publishing
    Release dateMar 20, 2024
    ISBN9798224795529
    Moon Hab: Lunar Series, #1

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      Moon Hab - D.W. Patterson

      To Sarah

      Is the surface of a planet the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

      - Gerard K. O'Neill

      TO THE READER

      In this story (and most of my stories), if I use a date, I know I am using the antiquated dating system, A.D. I blame this on the book Daybreak – 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton, which I read some time in elementary school (and of which I recently bought an old paperback copy). So, I was imprinted early with that dating system and think it sounds cooler than C.E. No social, political or any other kind of statement is meant.

      Chapter 1

      Men had returned to the Moon only nine years before and now the first commercial settlement was starting, though it would be a pretty modest start, actually it would be just a single structure (and inflatable at that) but it would be home to several of the company's employees over the two week day of a lunar month.

      Just south of Timaeus crater in Mare Frigoris the company had sited the settlement, Tima, named after the crater. Water in the permanent shadows of the crater's south wall would eventually support the new settlement. Luna Limited was one of a handful of companies that were racing to establish mining rights, manufacturing facilities, tourist destinations, and anything else that might bring in a dollar on the Moon. No one really knew what would be profitable but everyone felt that it was time to make a move.

      I was above all the action, circling the Moon in the company's space station, part of the support network for those on the surface. I would be here for three months, that was a common rotation schedule, any more and the exposure to the normal radiation of space was considered too risky to one's health. Three months should be enough time to get the habitat setup and then someone else would take over the station.

      I was here to take care of the work crew during the two-week long darkness at the job site. During that time they would rocket back to the space station where I would cook and maintain their quarters. Eventually, we would

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