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 |