The Expedition to the Moons of Sera was a proposed mission in which the Union of Independent Republics planned to land cosmonauts on the two Moons of Sera. The expedition was conceived late in the Pendulum Wars, after the UIR had occupied the neutral nation of Vasgar and built the top-secret cosmodrome OZP-11 there. The mission was intended to push the boundaries of human exploration to new heights, as well as seize a symbolic victory and strategic advantage over the Coalition of Ordered Governments.[1]
Although OZP-11's primary purpose was to serve the UIR's Hammer of Dawn program, a Cosmonaut Training Facility was also built to prepare UIR cosmonauts for the first manned missions to space and beyond aboard UIR Rockets. There was no indication that the UIR's space program achieved its lofty goal of reaching the Moons before UIR Control Vasgar ordered OZP-11 to terminate operations in light of the COG's victory in the Pendulum Wars and the signing of the UIR-COG Armistice.