First came the flying saucers, and now another Air Force experiment has shed some light on a past space endeavor. Except this time, it was to be at the expense of the moon. According to this recent article from Discovery News, Air Force Physicist Leonard Reiffel published a report in 1958  that proposed “nuclear detonations in the vicinity of the moon.” Amy Shira Teitel, the author of the Discovery News article, writes, “Reiffel envisioned soft landing three identical scientific instrument packages carrying seismometers and radiation detectors at random on the visible face of the moon. These in situ stations would…