Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

34 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 ASTRO PUBLISHING the Andersons continued to de- velop the project to turn it into an original series. “UFO: 1999” was to begin with a massive alien attack, capable of destroying part of the Moon, hurling a large fragment that housed the new SHADO base into space. But then the authors de- cided that the entire Moon would be lost in space after an irreversible exit from Earth’s orbit caused by a nuclear explosion. Thus was born the TV series “Space: 1999”, pure and simple science fiction, which transcends science and technology far too much. Who knows what constantly illuminates the surface of a Moon that wanders aimlessly in the cosmic darkness…