Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

30 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 ASTRO PUBLISHING solution, seen with today’s eyes). The only wreck seen destroyed in the episode is an unlikely Vostok 2. Straker intends to remove all wrecks from Earth’s orbit, a pur- pose that clashes with the au- thoritarianism of General James Henderson (played by actor Ronald Grant Taylor), President of the In- ternational Astrophysical Commis- sion, on which SHADO depends. The basic problem is the difficulty of obtaining the necessary funds to implement the project, a bit like what still happens today for similar initiatives. In the seventh episode, “The Dalotek Affair”, SHADO’s telecom- munications are disturbed by an alien device landed on the Moon inside a meteorite. The interfer- ence is initially attributed to a pri- vate company, which has a small lunar base where research related to the mining exploitation of the Moon is carried out. This is also a