The History Guy remembers 'America's Forgotten Moon-Base Plans' for National Moon Day 2025

Happy National Moon Day, the 56th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon! I'm turning to The History Guy's America's Forgotten Moon-Base Plans for this year's celebration. He begins the video by mentioning the first Moon landing and then goes back to ask and answer, "What if?"

Immediately after WWII, numerous agencies and groups within the United States recognized that space was the next frontier. Plans to conquer that frontier began to proliferate. Some ideas were promising, while others were, perhaps, little more than pipe dreams.

Listening to The History Guy talk about how inter-service rivalries influenced early plans for space and the Moon makes me wonder what the Air Force, Army, and Navy would think of Space Force. An idea out of science fiction, no doubt. Then again, so were their plans for space in general and the Moon in particular. Project Horizon strikes me as especially ambitious, much more so than anything proposed for Artemis, the current NASA program to build a Moon base. That, at least, would be for peaceful purposes, including supporting a crewed mission to Mars, not military ones.

The History Guy has more videos about lunar missions, which I'm saving for future posts. I'm an environmentalist; not only do I recycle, I conserve my resources.

That's a wrap for today's holiday. Stay tuned for the next installment of my examination of the Emmy nominees.