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The total cost for this military operation reached seven point five billion dollars. This plan envisioned a twenty-one-person underground base on the lunar surface by 1968.
Heinz-Hermann Koelle led the Army's Project Horizon study in 1959. He proposed that two soldier-astronauts would land on the Moon in 1965.
The selected location sat on the rim of Shackleton crater within the South Pole-Aitken basin. Doug Cooke described this area as sunlit seventy-five to eighty percent of the time.
International partners include the European Space Agency, JAXA, and the Canadian Space Agency. A station named Lunar Gateway serves as a communications hub and holding area for rovers.
Buzz Aldrin disagreed with NASA's current goals and priorities regarding lunar outposts. He believed replaying Apollo glory days would not advance American space leadership.