Science Fiction & Horror

Last Days On The Moon

What really happened that caused us to stop visiting the moon? A horror experience that is better kept classified.

Jason Morton
Readers Hope
Published in
11 min readSep 9, 2023

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Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Screams were what John heard on August 15th, 1977. John and the handful of those cleared to be present in mission control. It was the final mission to the moon, and when it was over, only a handful of people would ever know what went on that fateful day. An even smaller number of people would be aware of the truth about what John and his crew suffered or why John was the only one to make his way home.

Commander John Davidson, Major Steven Lockhart, and Captain William Brand launched into space on a Soyuz Rocket. Their departure was from an undisclosed Island in the middle of the Pacific. It was the first joint space mission by Russia and the United States and would be the last until they began working together on the International Space Station. The director of NASA, The Joint Chiefs, a handful of the flight crew, a small complement of staff at Mission Control, and President Jimmy Carter were the only ones in the loop.

At 75 hours into the mission, Commander Davidson and his crew began preparations for their moon landing. They were going…

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Jason Morton
Readers Hope

Currently, I'm a telecom tech, a grandfather, and fighting cancer. I enjoy writing and sharing opinions. I stumbled into some knowledge along my journey.