Encounter idea for Star Trek, Traveller, or any space or horror rpg - Apollo 11 ascent stage

[Imhotepthewise]

It is possible the Apollo 11 ascent stage is still in orbit around the Moon and may never crash. What could be on it that would make an interesting adventure?

 

[MGibster]

The astronauts found what looked like an interesting geode but it turns out to have been an egg. Something hatched but the astronauts managed to leave it behind in their escape.

 

[Imhotepthewise]

I was thinking the Nixon tapes!

 

[dragoner]

When the Astronauts get to the Moon, they find a smallish crystal pyramid with a quantum resonance, it is very ancient, and when touched, the the resonance stops. Stolen from AC Clarke

 

[Eltab]

Hopelessly obsolete but still-functional equipment.
Indiana Jones meets the 20th Century AD, instead of the 20th Century BC.
His patron is a private antiquities collector or the Smithsonian Museum.

 

[dragoner]

If gravity suddenly shut off, spiders would be in a good position.

 

[Eltab]

Would your players recognize "a black monolith, 1 : 4 : 9, which reflects all probes or rays used to investigate it"?

 

[dragoner]

In the parallel universe next to ours, something bad has happened (like an invasion of Cthulhu-spawn), it is now starting to bleed through ...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It is possible the Apollo 11 ascent stage is still in orbit around the Moon and may never crash. What could be on it that would make an interesting adventure?

Here is a trailer for the movie you need to see…

 

[Bohandas]

I recall a Doctor Who episode where The Silence had manipulated humans into starting the space race because they needed space stuff they could steal or something. Perhaps you could do something with that.