Nina knows there are some who want to shut down the program, and she is worried about all sorts of negative publicity, which would be worse if someone found out NASA had placed a murderer in their moon program. The base commander, Nina Stack, tells Dash to stop talking about it. Holtz had seemed excited about his plans for an announcement, Dash immediately suspects foul play.

Holtz left the buildings of the MBA and died on the moon's surface. However, he wakes the following morning to discover that Dr. Holtz saying he plans to make a major announcement the following day and Dash is excited for any potential change in the sheer monotony of this life. He is the doctor for the small community and is well-liked. While he is struggling to make the repairs, Dr. The toilets are complicated pieces of equipment and Dash's breaks before he is finished. One night, Dash has to make the trek across the campus to the bathroom after one of the meals makes him ill.

The residents exist on dehydrated food that tastes terrible. Transporting actual furniture is overly expensive, meaning they sleep on air mattresses and sit on inflated chairs. The sleeping pods are small and the inhabitants often feel claustrophobic. The toilets are sometimes problematic and are located across the building from the residential area. The community is called Moon Base Alpha, or MBA.ĭash opens by saying that living on the moon sounds like an incredible adventure, but that there are problems no one mentioned when the family was recruited for this task. Many of these scientists have families and there are a few children who live in the small community. All the other families were chosen because of their areas of expertise, such as astrobiology or robotics. A maintenance worker named Garth Grisan and one family who paid for the privilege of spending a few months on the moon are also in the community. About two dozen people reside in the compound, along with a few who occasionally arrive for short periods of time, usually for specific purposes such as delivering food or providing some service. The family has been on the moon for about six months of their 3-year stay when the events of this novel take place.

His mother is geologist Rose Harris, and his father is mining specialist Steven Gibson. Kindle AZW file.ĭashiell Gibson, known as Dash, is a twelve year-old who lives on the moon with his parents and younger sister, Violet, who is 6. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, 2014. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Gibbs, Stuart.

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