Welcome to Paradise

A civilian spot welder writes to the President to explain how a routine repair on a classified Signal Corps component accidentally triggered a hyper-high-frequency matter broadcast that transported him to Lunette, a nearby satellite. He awakens on a strange military outpost and is briefed by a noncommissioned officer about a Matter BARS apparatus that transmits people and objects by bouncing matter off the moon under strict conditions, and learns he is the first civilian so conveyed. The framed first-person account balances wry memoir detail with plain explanations of the technology and the narrator's anxiety over secrecy and unintended involvement in a government project.