The Committee for the Future was founded in 1970 by Barbara Marx Hubbard, its organizing director and prime mover,[2][3][4] with headquarters in Lakeville, Connecticut.
[7] The mission of Harvest Moon was to use leftover Saturn rockets and lunar modules from the Apollo program's space flights to fly two astronauts to the Moon, where they would set up automated experiments that could be controlled from Earth, collect one to four hundred pounds of lunar rocks, and return to Earth, where the collected material would be divided into tiny fragments and sold to the public.
The first, with an eventual Moon colony in mind, was a twenty-foot mylar dome under which plants, insects, and possibly small animals would be observed for their reaction to the two-week-long lunar day.
[11] Suggested by George Van Valkenburg in October 1970,[12][13] Project Harvest Moon was developed by the New Worlds Company, incorporated by the Committee for the Future in 1970.
[8] After the financial analysis by the brokerage firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, the project was publicized in the summer of 1971 and reviewed by independent newspapers and syndicated columnists such as Bob Considine.