Soviets planned invulnerable Moon base

Soviets Planned 'Invulnerable' Moon Base
www.mosnews.com...

In the days of the Cold War, Soviet commanders and their best scientists were working on a project to build military headquarters on the moon, the Novaya Gazeta weekly reports.

The paper writes that the lunar base project was developed 30 years ago and was abolished only because of its enormous cost. ...

Crazy stuff.

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[edit on 18-3-2005 by Spectre]

So did we...it was to be called Project Horizon... I'd say both powers probably "planned" a lot...but there's a big difference between planning and execution...