Moon Base

What this place is

Lunar waypoint and human space hub Dawn reaches before the deep-system Kuiper run.

Fiction place dossier for the free hard SF series Star Map Draftsman by Mango Taoist — not a real astronomy entry.

In the books

Spoiler label: Book I · people-first, spoiler-light facts from the atlas.

• Shuttle passengers enter lunar orbit; Dawn travels with Rodney Cruise and Kenny Jr. Clooney toward Moon Base.
• Moon Base is framed as a hard-won symbol of Earth’s space program and a locked communications waypoint.
• Dawn later regrets time lost to Moon Base work versus time with Stacean.
• Earth’s space development repeatedly pulls back toward Moon Base and Mars base rather than farther reaches.

Read next

• Moon Base (Book I · ch2)

Related

• Star Atlas: Open map focused on Moon Base (or browse the Atlas hub)