With Moonbase Alpha another childhood illusion is shattered - the life of an astronaut appears to be largely slow, dull and pretty repetitive. That's not to say that there aren't any exciting bits.

In March of this year, he tweeted a supposed ad for SpaceX’s planned lunar travel that was, in fact, the trailer for “Destination Moonbase-Alpha,” a 1978 compilation movie editing episodes ...

Fictional moon base Alpha: Located in the Moon crater Plato and constructed out of quarried rock and ores, Moonbase Alpha is four kilometers in diameter and extends up to one kilometre in areas below ...

After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship ...