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Moon Base One 
Moon Base One cover shows Chris Godfrey with friends Serge, Morrey and Tony in mysterious grey mistAuthor(s) Hugh Walters Country United Kingdom Language English Series Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Faber Publication date 1960 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 192 ISBN 0571061338 Preceded by Operation Columbus Followed by Expedition Venus Moon Base One is a young adult science fiction novel, the fourth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1960, in the US by Criterion Books in 1962 under the title Outpost on the Moon.
Plot summary
Thousands of young people are terminally ill as a result of the radiation produced by the lunar structures destroyed in The Domes of Pico. In an attempt to determine whether the fall-out from the domes can have a curative effect on the disease a joint East-West mission is planned under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations EXploration Agency (UNEXA).
The mission is commanded by Chris Godfrey, accompanied by American, Morrison 'Morrey' Kant and Russian Serge Smyslov. The 'patient' will be Tony Hale, from Aston near Birmingham (who goes on to feature in the rest of the series). The mission starts well, but is soon in trouble when a supply rocket crashes...
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U.N.E.X.A. series Blast Off at Woomera (1957) · The Domes of Pico (1958) · Operation Columbus (1959) · Moon Base One (1960) · Expedition Venus (1962) · Destination Mars (1963) · Terror by Satellite (1964) · Journey to Jupiter (1965) · Mission to Mercury (1965) · Spaceship to Saturn (1967) · The Mohole Mystery (1968) · Nearly Neptune (1968) · First Contact? (1971) · Passage to Pluto (1973) · Tony Hale, Space Detective (1973) · Murder on Mars (1975) · The Caves of Drach (1978) · The Last Disaster (1978) · The Blue Aura (1979) · The Dark Triangle (1979) · The Glass Men (unpublished)Boy Astronaut Boy Astronaut (1977) · First Family on the Moon (1979) · School on the Moon (1981)Categories:- 1960 novels
- Children's science fiction novels
- 1960s science fiction novels
- Moon in fiction
- Works by Hugh Walters
- 1960s science fiction novel stubs
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