Eventually, the base could be a haven for future landing missions. (businessinsider.com)
It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth). (inverse.com)
Taking the found - footage fad into outer space, «Apollo 18» imagines a reality in which NASA didn't actually scrap the titular moon landing mission in 1972, but instead hid the astronauts» horrifying discovery from an unwitting public. (bullzeye.com)