After a Moonraker space shuttle is stolen in transit from America to Britain, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) sends James Bond to investigate Hugo Drax's Moonraker manufacturing plant in California. Bond meets with him at his mansion in California, which has been shipped stone-by-stone from France. While there, Drax and Bond go hunting in the estate grounds, where an assassination attempt by one of Drax's men is foiled. At Drax's research facility Bond meets Dr. Goodhead who sets him up in a machine which simulates g forces, although one of Drax's men tries to kill him by making it spin dangerously fast.