Question: Assuming that Moonbase Alpha is on the side facing the Earth (which is seen on the horizon over the base in the pilot episode "Breakaway"), making travel to it and back easier, and the nuclear waste on the far side, away from Earth, wouldn't the explosion propel the moon towards the Earth, thereby dooming Alpha to certain destruction?
Movie Nut
27th May 2016
Space: 1999 (1975)
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Answer: Not necessarily - The gravitational fields of Earth and the Sun could have deflected the moon away from the solar system.
Seniram