Hey, so, it’s basically Moon Week this week, with the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing coming up on Monday and tomorrow marking the date that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong lifted off in Apollo 11. Accordingly, every media outlet is knee-deep in nostalgic moon-gazing coverage, but we’re more interested in the ways that the moon fuels our imagination. Therefore, we’re visiting these 9 Fictional Moon Bases. Won’t you join us?

Moon Base from Project Moonbase (1953)

A prototype of the subsequent Cold War space race movies (see below), this has a trio of American astronauts landing on the moon, where they’ve been sent to survey for possible moon bases. One of them turns out to be an impostor, another is a woman, so it’s up to our American hero to save the day (and, you know, the moon base).

The Moonbase, a serial in the original Doctor Who series (1967)

In this four-episode serial from the British sci-fi epic, the crew is stuck in a weather-monitoring moon base suddenly put under quarantine due to a mysterious virus. They are then visited by the Cybermen (pictured), who thereafter became recurring baddies in the Who series.

Moonbase Alpha from Space: 1999 (1975-77)

Part Star Trek, part Lost in Space, a team of scientists conducting research and watching over silos of nuclear waste from Earth are cast off into deep space when the waste explodes and projects the Moon out of orbit. And that’s why you don’t stick your nuclear waste in remote regions.

Moon Bases from British series Moonbase 3 (1973)

Set in the futuristic wonderland of 2003 (remember?), Moonbase 3 featured 5 moon bases, each belonging to the colonizing superpower that built it. The series was set in number 3, operated by Europe, while the others belonged to the U.S.A. (1), Russia (2), China (4) and Brazil (5) (what?). In fairly typical BBC style (although the six-episode series was co-produced by FOX and ABC), the real challenge faced by protags in the series was running a moon base on a miniscule budget with the constant threat of bureaucratic intervention. It ran for six episodes.

Moon Base from Moon (2009)

In this small-scale sci-fi gem of worker alienation and mundane blue-collar work in the space-age future, Sam Bell is nearing the end of a three year tour on a mining company’s moon base. One that looks fairly similar to…

Moon Base 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Though it opens with a prehistoric monolith on earth, workers from a moon base discover a second monolith on that satellite, prompting the creepy, operatic drama we’ve come to love.

“Death Star” from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

As Dr. Evil explains, his “Death Star” is an elaborate, Buckminster Fuller-inspired dome on the moon housing a giant laser.

Moon Bases from Way… Way Out (1966)

In this heteronormative Cold War sci-fi rom-com, Jerry Lewis is sent up to the American moon base, where previous all-male two-person teams have all gone crazy (read: sex-starved nuts), because, you know, men can’t have sex with men. Unless they’re Soviets. Gender relations between male and female astronauts on the Soviet base are all hunky-dorry.

NASA’s Moon Base (2019-2024)

This plan is apparently as good as dead in space (thereby making it officially fictional), but it was fun to fantasize about (now bring on Mars!). And remember the Lunar Hilton? Whatever happened with that?