The premise of
Doppelgänger is simple. An unmanned space probe sent to
study the Sun by the European Eurosec space agency is pulled off
course and accidentally discovers a new planet in an identical but
opposite orbit to the Earth. Since the Cold War is still very
much in play, Eurosec, with American funding, prepares a manned
spacecraft with an Anglo-American crew to explore and possibly claim
the new world before "they" do.
Key to this plan is the Phoenix;
an interplanetary spacecraft that looks like a grown-up version of the
Apollo Command Service Module. Aside from being five times as
big as a CSM, she has an internal docking bay for her landing craft, Rolls
Royce rocket engines and no apparent storage area for fuel.
The premise of
Doppelgänger is simple. An unmanned space probe sent to
study the Sun by the European Eurosec space agency is pulled off
course and accidentally discovers a new planet in an identical but
opposite orbit to the Earth. Since the Cold War is still very
much in play, Eurosec, with American funding, prepares a manned
spacecraft with an Anglo-American crew to explore and possibly claim
the new world before "they" do.