Perigee

The Lunar Base

During the so-called Climate War of the 21st century, an asteroid hit the moon. Before the moon found itself back in its place within the grasp of Earth's gravitation, it was discovered that the asteroid in question had been made almost entirely out of metals. The discovery, and the forced end to the Climate War, re-lit the spark of rivalry between the United States and Russia. A new race for the moon started, but this time reaching it wasn't the objective - but instead building a base fit for human life. Many other nations intervened however, and the rivalry was very short lived. Due to harsh regulations and rules the two rivals finally vowed peace, and with the involvement of many other countries they formed a sort of alliance, to cooperate for the common goal - building a lunar base.
     At the start, only robots were used. They set up solar panels to power themselves, at first. Then the amount of panels increased. The energy they produced was transferred to Earth via beams of electromagnetic radiation, and the microwaves were then obtained by beam receivers on Earth. The heat created was used in boiling water reactors - a method that had been recycled from ways of converting heat from nuclear power into electricity - and even more robots were sent up. Every organization even remotely involved in astronomy and engineering were frantically working on how to build the base. Several thousand design ideas were disregarded before one of them finally went through. Everything matched up. The location, the amount of water ice in the area, the design of the base, it would all work. So the construction of The Lunar Base began.

At the dawn of the 22nd century, The Lunar Base marked the beginning of a new era - Perigee - bringing Space ever closer to the human race.

Perigee:
The point in an orbit around planet Earth where the orbiting body is the closest to the planet.