Another benefit of the Moon program is a comparative abundance of solid rocket boosters. Even a man down to his last ten million can afford to buy some, as long as he lies about how they will be used.Īlthough they are too worn out to survive another Earth to orbit trip, gentler accelerations will not damage them. Old shuttles are abandoned in graveyard orbits. Gus believes this is pure malarky, but it does offer him the means by which he can pursue his own covert program. Their recipe for success begins “first, steal three derelict shuttles.”ĭespite Moon-Treaty-related lawsuits making lunar development a chancy thing, NASA is powering ahead with space development plans centred on lunar resources. He and an ambitious Arab named Mansour have a cunning scheme that may make them billions, upend the economy and save oil-dependent Arab nations 1! If it screws over the WASP pricks who run the USA, all the better. Gus is not content to be put out to pasture. Screwed over by government and his back-stabbing son-in-law, Gus Dampier lost control of his company. Edmondson’s 1980 The Man Who Corrupted Earth is a stand-alone near-future space industrialization novel.
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