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Program: Navy Lunar Base. Overview: Like the US Army and Air Force, the US Navy conducted some serious studies of a manned lunar landing program in the late 1950's. Unlike the Army Horizon and USAF Lunex projects, no significant material on the plan has come to light to date. Major Events: .

24 April 1959 All three military services studying a base on the moon More details
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Commander of the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, stated that all three military services should be studying the possibility of a base on the moon. Up to that point, he felt, all such studies had been "in the blue thinking."

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