Luna

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Sol System: Earth: Luna

Overview

Luna is the only major satellite of Earth.

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Exploration

• 2006-03-26 U.S. Planning Base on Moon To Prepare for Trip to Mars

Maps

• Google Moon

Missions

• Apollo series
  • Apollo 11
    • 2006-10-03 One small step for clarity: evidence that Armstrong actually did say "one small step for a man", just too quickly to catch

Links

Articles

• 2006-09-24 The Moon as backup drive for civilization

Initiatives

• 2008-06-20 Google launches new space race to the moon: "The quest is part of the Google Lunar X Prize, which will put $20 million into the hands of the first privately funded team that can land a rover on the moon; have it travel on the surface for 500 meters or more; send back data, photos and video; and do it all by December 31, 2012. .. The prize drops to $15 million after that date and goes away altogether after 2014."

News

• 2006-08-16 Mission to find footage of moon
• 2006-06-13 A Meteoroid Hits the Moon
  • 2007-03-14 Shooting Marbles at 16,000 mph: NASA scientist Bill Cooke studies simulated Lunar impacts with an eye toward Lunar astronaut safety