Harvey Smith talks a little bit about Deus Ex

I didn't want to put Area 51 in Deus Ex! I didn't find it that interesting. In fact, initially it was a moonbase. You were going to use the rocket to get to the international space-station (which in our fiction was just sagging and falling apart and barely held together), and from there you were going to use a shuttle to get to a luxury space-station which was going to be like the Titanic.

Deus Ex - the ending that never was