The Soviet Union has endured through much. The World Wars,the Cold War,and the Space Race, and has lasted through all of them. The Red Banner, shielded by the hammer and sickle, flies across much of the world. But now, during a golden age of Soviet Space Exploration, a cosmonaut heads to the surface of the moon carrying with him a secret mission that could change the entire Cosmonaut Program, the USSR, and the world, forever; But Connor McCarthy's dream of the stars may jeopardize the entire mission, and put the Soviet Union and the entire planet right in the sights, staring down the barrel of a nuclear gun held by someone with nothing to lose.