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Eagle in Space, with Inset Photo of Alan Carter in Spacesuit
There would be little hope
--little chance--for the
people of Moonbase if the
terrifying breakaway that
threw them out of Earth's
orbit had destroyed their
whole Eagle fleet.
These amazing ships are
the only means they have of
fully investigating anything
in their path. Their only
means--when the time
eventually comes--of quit-
ting their wandering prison.
Chief Space Pilot Alan
Carter (played in the Space
1999 Series by Australian
Nick Tate) is the man to
whom the control cabin of
his Eagle is more of a home
than his bunk on Moonbase.
An ex-Navy flier who
joined the Astronautics pro-
gramme way back in the
early eighties, Alan was a
natural for the Moonbase
team. Virtually alone in his
field after the breakaway--
when his principal co-pilots
died in the holocaust--this
iron-willed, nerveless man
has had to take on the train-
ing of new colleagues from

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