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                                             The Dark Side of the Moon

Friday, October 4th, 1957. Scientists from Soviet Russia successfully launch Sputnik 1, a Soviet satellite up into space. It’s the first man made satellite that has successfully entered space, thus triggering the Space Race between the United States and the USSR. Countries from around the world watch with anticipation and fill their tabloids with news related to the success of the Soviets, dubbing the event as a “modern marvel of scientific ingenuity”. What the Soviets failed to mention though, is that Sputnik was not a satellite, but a ship carrying multiple Soviet military personnel, scientists and building architects to the Earth’s moon to secretly build a nuclear lunar base near a moon crater called Argos. American CIA spies uncover the truth behind the rocket launch and report intelligence to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in turn calls for an emergency meeting among Air Force officials in his cabinet. They immediately draft plans to send an elite special forces group to intercept the Soviet military group on the moon and recover their document plans for the nuclear base to bring back to the United States.

A young new recruit named Adam Anderson, is one of the 12 different military members who are promoted to the Air Force Special Tactics Team and selected to participate in this mission to the moon. Adam and the crew are sent to a secret military base in the Nevada desert where they board a rocket that sends them up into orbit and to the moon. When they land however, they find the Soviet base is already half built, but severely damaged. Along with several dead Soviet bodies in space suits scattered around the building site. The men also observe a strange flickering light off in the horizon of the dark side of the moon that catches their attention. The American forces search the grounds but find no documents for the nuclear base. With their direct orders to find the documents, the men embark on a lunar mission to find them and solve the mystery of the mysterious light in the distance, along with what happened to the Soviets before they landed.

Unbeknown to the crew though, is that something from an alien world watches them with malcontent from the shadows of the dark side of the moon. Camouflaged by the empty dark void of space. The fate of the men will now depend on how fast they can find the Soviet nuclear documents and if they can survive what hunts them in the dark side of the moon.