# Pastebin YoEQDh4S
TITLE: At Long Last Landing

**Item #:** SCP-XXXX

**Object Class:** Euclid

**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-XXXX is currently self-containing outside of extraterrestrial observations, with the moon blocking both visual contact with SCP-XXXX-1 and all transmissions from the object. Civilian space exploration is to be covertly influenced in such a way that viewings of the far side of the moon never align with SCP-XXXX occurrences, and the relevant debris is to be dismissed as either natural craters or visual distortion.

Research into a method of removing the remains of 665 lunar command modules from the moon's surface is currently ongoing.

**Description:** SCP-XXXX is an anomalous event occurring once every 27 days, in which an object identical to the Apollo Command/Service Module will spontaneously appear in orbit around the Earth's moon. The initial event was observed on 16/08/1969, exactly 27 days (or one full lunar cycle) after the original Command Module completed its mission, and has since repeated without interruption. The object, designated SCP-XXXX-1, will appear just behind the moon's horizon and continue on a trajectory identical to that traversed by the original Apollo 11 command module in the later stages of its mission, with the net result being that SCP-XXXX-1 is concealed from Earth's view at all times.

At some point during its passage, SCP-XXXX-1 will experience any one of a number of technical failures and rapidly deorbit. The causes of this are often unclear, but have included spontaneous combustion of the fuel tanks, rapid decompression brought on by a minor asteroid strike, and instantaneous [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2821 vacuum decay]. No instances of SCP-XXXX-1 have yet completed a full orbit, or progressed in such away as to be visible from Earth. 

**Addendum.1:** On 20/07/1970, an SCP-XXXX event occurred, in which deorbiting did not occur until much later in the flight than ordinarily observed. Alongside this, Foundation lunar sites stationed on the moon's far side intercepted the following message:
> "Command, we're experiencing some abnormal activity. Oxygen levels are being rapidly depleted, possible some kind of external leak. Stand by."
> 
> "Command?"
> 
> "Command, do you copy? I repeat, command, do you copy?"
> 
> "Okay, uh, okay. Command, if you're reading this at all, I'm about to attempt contact with the lander."
> 
> //[static]//
> 
> "Shit. Shit shit shit. Oxygen levels 20, maybe 25 percent expected. Command, if you're there, I need advice."
> 
> "This- this is it. Buzz, Neil, if you're hearing this, you're stuck down there. I'm sorry."
> 
> "I'm sorry."
>
> "This is, ah, me, Michael Collins. Stating for the record that I did everything I could."
> 
> "Michael Collins, alone up here."
> 
> "Engines are failing. We're going down. I- I guess."
> 
> //[long pause]//
> 
> "Command module //Columbia//, signing out."
This event has not been repeated.