moon

Yet here he sat, shaking like a leaf in autumn, with only one moon left and his duty as yet unfulfilled!

“And when the other lads found out what came over me at the full moon...If you were me you’d be a bit secretive too, I’d expect.”

“You wouldn’t remember, Fredrick; it was before you were born. But I cannot forget: All that howling and barking and scratching, whenever the moon was full. ‘

They howled, and howled, and howled again, long and loud and mournful, as if the sky were made of nothing but full moons.

The agency envisioned itself developing the technology to launch weather satellites, probes we could send to the moon, and satellites that could warn us if a missile was coming.