Missile to the Moon story
A spaceship blasts off from Earth with five aboard, but one of them is secretly a Moon man returning home. He dies by accident during the trip to Luna. What the remaining four find waiting for them when they arrive on the Moon is well beyond their expectations: huge rock creatures, giant lunar spiders, and a cave-dwelling civilization made up of beautiful women.
13 total · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| atmospheric dissipation | major | The Moon women's civilization was on the verge of collapsing because the the oxygen levels in the cves they inhabited was diminishing to critically low levels and they had to find a new planet to live on. |
| engaged couple | major | Steve Dayton and June Saxton. |
| human vs. captivity | major | The lunar landing party members were held captive by the Moon women. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | Dirk Green is secretly a Moon man and builds a rocketship and compels two escaped convicts to fly it with him to the Moon. |
| Moon people | major | A spaceship blasts off from Earth with five aboard, but one of them is secretly a Moon man returning home. |
| romantic love | major | Steve Dayton and June Saxton. |
| blindness | minor | Lido had gone blind. |
| facing organized pursuit | minor | Escaped convicts Gary and Lon hid aboard Dirk Green's rocketship and ended up being compelled to fly it to the Moon. |
| human vs. beast | minor | The lunar landing party was attacked by a giant Moon spider while trying to escape from the Moon women. |
| love triangle | minor | Alpha wanted Steve Dayton to be her husband but he was happily engaged to June Saxton. |