Simultaneously, as I read the book I enquired in all available databases on Luna but could find no mention of the three survivors of the ‘Neil Armstrong’ or the ship itself. They seem to have been erased from history itself!
The book went on to explain that It was several months later that the hastily converted moon tug ‘Constellation’ captained by the soon-to-be-famous Bradley arrived at the Breakout Ship.
The temporary airlock had disappeared, leaving a depressurised hull with no internal power. Frozen human remains filled the space behind the entry point and details of the state of the cadavers has been kept top secret by all agencies involved ever since.
The unspeakable truth was that of the eighteen Crew and six Marines, only one survived his visit to the alien vessel, namely a Sta
