Space: 1999 is a British science fiction television series that originally aired from 1975 to 1977. It follows the adventures of the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, who are stranded in space after a nuclear waste dump on the Moon explodes, sending the Moon hurtling out of Earth's orbit.
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""The TV show is explicitly mentioned by name as an example of past predictions about space travel and moon colonization that did not come to fruition."