In 1968, the United States government started a secret project to continue manned spaceflight trials after the first attempt to reach the moon ended in tragedy. The project drew together some of the best minds of the Navy and the Air Force, as they worked to put a man around the moon before the Russians could. However, the only result of the project that would survive to this day is the journal of an unnamed engineer, who recorded the build up and bizarre conclusion of this top secret mission.

The Paean Project is a short alternative history science fiction story that explores a world where something lurks on the far side of the moon... if the government had to fake the moon landings, perhaps it was because there was something there that kept us away...