starting point debate, 131–133, 136, 158, 264
Apennines (Montes Apenninus), 39
apogee, 79, 81, 165
Apollo 8 and Apollo 8, 24–27, 107
photo of Earth, 26–30, 31, 32
Apollo 9 and Spider, 105, 107
Apollo 11, Eagle and Tranquility Base, 86, 112, 113–117, 207
Apollo 12 and Intrepid, 112, 117–118
Apollo 13, 174, 205
Apollo 14, 112, 119
Apollo 15, 112, 119–122
Apollo 16 and Casper, 112, 122–123
Apollo 17 and Challenger, 112, 123–124, 227, 247
Apollo programme
as ambition, 129, 130, 173
cancellation, 169–170, 173, 197
description and scale, 103–104, 201
gender and race, 110
human impact on the Moon, 134–135
landing events and conversations, 113–124
landing sites, 112 (map), 113, 117, 119, 122, 123, 227
lunar-orbit rendezvous, 103
post-programme expectations, 169–171, 177–178, 195
post-programme realities and criticisms, 129–130, 182
science done, 171–172
simulators, 108
Arago, Francois, 69
Arctic Circle, 80
Arden, Michel (character), 65, 69, 95
Arendt, Hannah, 182–183, 262
Aristarchus, 49
Aristarchus crater, 39, 49
Aristotle, 16–17
Armstrong, Neil, 113–117, 133, 207–208
art, 23–24, 28–29, 42–43, 44, 206, 208, 282–283
artefacts and intelligence on the Moon, 231
artists in space, 206, 207–208
Asaro, Frank, 179
Ascension Island, 28–29
ashen light, 14–16, 32. See also earthlight
Asimov, Isaac, 151–153
asteroids, 68, 69, 166, 179, 192–193, 236
Astounding magazine, 94
astrobiology, 18, 35, 148–151, 154–156, 194–195
Astrobotic (company), 217, 228
astrogeology, 2, 83, 86
astrology, 80
atmosphere of Earth, 31, 55, 221
atmosphere of the Moon, 38, 55, 159
atmosphere of Mars, 18, 193
atmosphere of Venus, 18, 74, 149, 161
atmospheric chemistry, 18–19
atomic weapons and explosions, 70–72, 94–95, 98–99, 132, 174, 180–181, 270, 272
symbolic potency of, 133–134
axis of rotation of Earth, 149, 150
B1023 booster, 290
Baldwin, Ralph, 68, 69, 73–74
Barringer, Daniel, and family, 70–71
basalt on the Moon, 73–74, 126, 145
bases on the Moon. See moonbases
basins, 74, 154, 157–158
bats, 256
Bean, Alan, 117–118
Bear, Greg, 231, 276
Beer, Wilhelm, 233
Behn, Aphra, 56–57
Beresheet lander, 225–226
Berzelius crater, 225–226
Bezos, Jeff, 215–216, 218, 219–220
BFR (Big Fucking Rocket), 211, 212, 213–214, 239, 250, 282
Bierce, Ambrose, 3
big rockets development, 211–212
birth of the Moon, 139–143, 144–147
Blue Moon, 9
Blue Moon vehicle, 216
Blue Origin, 215–216, 219
Boa Vista (location), 230
bodily functions in spacesuits, 110
BOLAS mission and satellites Bolas-L and Bolas-H, 226–227
Bonestell, Chesley, 67, 95, 96, 273
Borman, Frank, 24, 27
Bova, Ben, 180–181, 187, 249
Bradbury, Ray, 180, 181–182
Brahe, Tycho, 49
Brand, Stewart, 185
breccia, 126
brightness of the Moon, 14, 30, 47, 75
British Interplanetary Society (BIS), 89, 186
Brown, Jerry, 185
Brownlee, Donald, 148, 149, 150
Bush, George H. W., 194
Bush, George W., 194, 212
Butler, Samuel, 55–56
calcium plagioclase, 145–146
calendars, 8–9
Campbell, John W., Jr., 94
capitalism, and environment, 264–266, 267–268
capture hypothesis, 145
Carpenter, James, 59–60, 62
“The Moon, Considered as a Planet, a World and a Satellite”, 60, 63–65, 274
Carswell structure, 178
Carter, Jimmy, and administration, 241
cassette players, 24
Catharina crater, 64
caves on the Moon, 38, 228–231
Cenozoic Era, 136
Cernan, Gene, 123–124, 247
Chakrabarty, Dipresh, 131, 264
Chang’e missions, 167, 198, 202, 225
Chaotian, 137–139
China, 198, 202, 225
Church and Christianity, 48, 50, 51
cinema
Moon in, 27, 28, 57
on space and the Moon, 92–93, 95–96, 231
Clarke, Arthur C., 71, 89, 96–97, 248, 249, 267, 286
“The Challenge of the Spaceship” 177
and communication satellites, 21, 174
“Earthlight”, 95–96
“A Fall of Moondust” 97
“Prelude to Space” 180
See also “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Clementine, 202
clouds on Earth, 4, 31, 33, 67, 167, 196, 271, 273–274, 287–288
Club of Rome, 186, 265
co-accretion hypothesis, 145
Cockell, Charles, 268, 269, 273
Colliers, 94
Collingwood, Robin, 264
Collins, Michael, 113
colonialism, 132, 264–265
see also Europeans, Age of Being Explored by
colonisation of space, 216, 217–218
colours of the Moon, 75
comets, 69, 179
command module, 24, 102–103
Commoner, Barry, 263, 265
computers
on lunar module, 105–106, 107–109
in science fiction, 107, 269–270, 271, 274
as source of wealth, 198
as tools for modelling, 107–109
women as, 97
Conrad, Pete, 117–118
Copernicanism, 48–49, 50
Copernician revolution, 17, 34, 153
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 16, 17, 49
Copernicus crater, 39, 49
Cosmism, 87–88, 98, 187, 282
countdown, in cinema, 93
Coyote, 13
Coyote Mountains (Arizona), 13
craters on Earth, 70–71, 178–179
craters on the Moon
creation from impacts, 68–69, 72, 74
darkness and light, 159–160, 233
description, 39
early research, 45–46, 58–59, 61, 64–65
Galileo, 45–46
and geological timescale, 153–154
images (first), 58
micrometeorites, 127
naming, 49, 64
reflection of light and rays, 47–48, 49, 65, 69
story about nuclear bomb, 71–72
See also specific craters
crescent of the Moon, 42
crust of the Moon, 37, 61, 125–126, 146, 157, 228
Cygnus (spacecraft), 209
Cyrano de Bergerac, 51
da Vinci, Leonardo, 14–15, 43
Darwin, George, 143, 144, 150
Davis, Don, 145
#dearMoon trip, 205–207, 214
death, and the Moon, 43, 274
Delanty, Rick (character), 179, 185
deliveries to lunar surface, 193, 209, 213, 216, 217
delta-v, 165, 166, 193, 238
Descartes landing
site, 122
Devil’s Ashpit station, 29
diamonds, 175
differentiated bodies, 138
Digges, Thomas, 90
direct ascent, 101
distance to the Moon, 79
distances on the Moon, 75, 76
Doctorow, Cory, 279
Douglas, Mary, 281
Dragon capsules, 208–209, 210, 213, 288–289
Duke, Charlie, 122–123
dust of/on the Moon (moondust)
dangers of, 247
description, 68, 125
in exposure of the Moon, 221, 222, 223
in fiction, 97
and lunar module, 111–112, 118
magnetic properties of, 222, 247
Thomas Gold and, 97, 141
Eagle. See Apollo 11
Earth
atmosphere of, 18–19, 21, 31–32, 55, 130, 149, 184, 221, 226, 265, 275
birth, 139–143, 144–147
as centre of universe, 16, 34
core of, 37, 142, 143, 221
crust of, and tectonic plates, 3, 74, 125, 135
photo from Apollo 8, 26–30, 31, 32
rocks on the Moon, 161–162
smallness, 90–91
surface and rocks, 125
view of the Moon, 74–75
See also specific topics
Earth-orbit rendezvous, 102
earthlight
experienced on or around the Moon, 35, 50, 75, 283
reflected back to Earth from the Moon, 14–16, 17, 19, 32–35, 43, 151–152
“Earthrise” photo, 28–29, 32
eastern hemisphere of the Moon, 78 (map)
eclipses, 79–80
ecliptic, 79–80
economy, and limits on Earth, 260–268
Eisenhower, Dwight, 99
electricity on the Moon and in space, 184, 232–233, 236
“The Elephant in the Moon” (Butler), 56
Elliott, Michael, 288, 290–291
Elsheimer, Adam, 43, 44
“The Emperor of the Moon” (Behn), 56–57
endolithic panspermia. See transpermia
energy crisis of 1970s, 184–185
energy from Sun, 31–32. See also photosynthesis; solar energy
engines, 84–86, 106, 212
Eno, Brian, 24
environment and environmentalism
and control, 268–270
and the future, 260–264, 265–268
and the Moon, 275–276, 280–283
private schemes in space, 185–187
“The Eons of Chaos and Hades” (Goldblatt et al.), 137–138
Erhlich, Paul, 186
erratics, 125–126
espionage, 22–23
European Space Agency, 202, 216
Europeans, Age of Being Explored by, 51–52, 132, 264
Evans, Ronald, 123
evolution, 60, 63, 67, 148, 155
evolution of Earth, 60–61, 63
evolution of humans, 75, 88, 133, 250, 272
evolution of the Moon, 60–62, 63
existential threat to Earth, 178–182, 194, 215
exoplanets, 17–18, 34, 35, 148, 151, 285
exposure to cosmos, 221–223
extraterrestrial life, 17, 18, 35, 57, 148–151, 231
see also Moonpeople
F-1 engines, 84, 85–86, 101, 212
fairground rides, 57
Falcon 9, 208, 209, 210, 288–289
Falcon Heavy launcher, 208, 210, 211, 290
Fallaci, Oriana, and father, 181–182
farside, lunar, 38–39, 43, 81, 284–286
FBI, 94
features on the Moon, 37–39, 45–50, 58, 75–76
See also specific features
fertility in Moon stories, 256
figures (symbolic) in the Moon, 13, 41, 42–45, 56
Flammarion, Claude, 233
“The Flight into Egypt” (painting by Elsheimer), 44
flight simulators, 108–109
flight to space. See spaceflight
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 57–58
formation of the Moon, 60–61, 139–143, 144–147, 283
fossil fuels, 133, 184, 275
Foster, Norman, and Foster + Partners, 230
Fra Mauro landing site, 119
France, 189
fuel, 25, 84–85, 87, 93, 104, 106, 236, 238–239
full Moon, 7, 9, 42, 47, 48
names of, 9
future
and environment, 260–264, 265–268
expansion and exploration, 90, 91, 92
in science and science fiction, 91–92
future for the Moon
expectations post-Apollo, 169–171, 177–178, 195–196
and humans, 274–283
possibilities, 5–6
and society, 260, 261–262, 267, 269, 275, 277–281
See also Return to the Moon
Gagarin, Yuri, 100, 207
Gaia hypothesis, 19, 185
Galilean moons, 49
Galilei, Galileo, 11, 15–16, 45–47, 49
gases, in rockets, 84
Gateway programme (Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway), 237
Gaye, Marvin, 129–130
“Genesis rock”, 120–122, 146
geological timescale
Earth, 131–132, 136–138, 163 (illustration)
Moon, 135–136, 153–154, 163 (illustration)
geology and geologists
epochs and ages naming, 131–132, 135, 136–137
impacts and bombardments, 69–71, 179
of the Moon, 12, 39, 61–62
Germany, rocket development, 86, 89, 93, 94
giant-impact theory, 144–145
gibbous Moon, 7, 42
Gifford, Charles, 69
Gilbert, Grove Karl, 11–12, 69, 70–71
Gilbert, William, 43–44, 54
Glenn, John, 215
Glennan, Keith, 99
globes of the Moon, 11
Goddard, Robert, 88–89, 93, 233, 282, 285
Godwin, Francis, 50, 52
Gold, Thomas, 97
Goldblatt, Colin, 137–138
Google Lunar X Prize, 3, 216–217, 281
Gordon, Richard, 117
Grail mission, 228
Grant, Allan, 96
gravity
and health, 248–251
theory and tides, 52, 53–54, 143, 144
Gregorian calendar, 9
Grinspoon, David, 133–134, 137, 139, 161
Grumman, 106, 108, 209
gunpowder, 87
Hadean, 136–137, 139, 142, 158
Hadley Rille landing site, 119
Hall, James, 59, 63
halo orbit, 167
Harland, Brian, 137
Harriman, Delos D. (character), 172–177, 184, 241, 274, 282
Harriot, Thomas, 47
Hartmann, Bill, 72, 73, 74, 145, 154, 156
Heidegger, Martin, 183
Heinlein, Robert, 71–72, 93, 94, 96, 186, 274
“Destination Moon” movie, 95–96
“The Man Who Sold the Moon”, 172–177, 241
“The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”, 38, 257–260, 261–264, 266–267, 268–271
“Rocket Ship Galileo”, 71–72, 94, 95
on society and future, 260, 261–262, 267, 269, 275
helium-3, 188–189, 230, 236
Hergé, 67
highlands of the Moon, 39, 44, 126, 145, 157, 233
Hipparchos crater, 58
history (human) on the Moon, 281–282
Holdren, John, 186
Holocene, 136
Hooke, Robert, 58–59, 69
howling, 13
Hubbard, Ron L., 94
humans
colonisation of space, 216, 217–218
existential threat on Earth, 178–182
first story of explorers to the Moon, 65–66
and future of the Moon in Return to the Moon, 274–283
health and body in space, 229, 247–251
impact on Earth (see Anthropocene)
impact on the Moon, 134–135, 281–282
services from the Moon, 62–63
uniqueness to Earth, 148–149
walkers on the Moon, 5, 201
Humboldt, Alexander von, 20
Hutton, James, 63
Huxley, Aldous, 91
ICBMs, 99
ice and frost on the Moon, 159, 160, 192
imagination, and the Moon, 20, 275
impacts on Earth, 70–71, 154–155, 178–179
impacts on the Moon
and craters, 68–69, 72, 74
dust and objects, 68, 221–222
early science, 69–70, 73–74
and geological timescale, 135, 153, 158
“Late Heavy Bombardment”, 154, 156–158
markings and gouges, 69, 74
models, 72–73
rocks from elsewhere, 160–162
rocks on the Moon, 125, 126, 157–158
Theia and Tellus collision, 139–143, 144–147
and water, 158–160
India, 202
intelligence and artefacts on the Moon, 231
International Astronomical Union, 48
International Commission on Stratigraphy, 131, 136
International Latex Corporation, 109
International Seabed Authority, 242
International Space Station (ISS), 170, 196, 209, 213, 248
Intrepid. See Apollo 12
ionosphere, 21, 282, 284
IPAT formula, 186–187
iron core, 37–38, 142, 143
Irwin, James, 119–122
ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer 3), 202–203
Islam and Islamic calendar, 8–9, 42
ITER reactor, 189
Jangle U crater, 70
Japan, 202
Jefferson, Thomas, 280
Johnson, Lyndon, 100, 101
Jupiter, 49, 138–139, 156, 172, 202
moons of, 37, 49, 193, 247, 291
Jurvetson, Steve, 3
Kennedy, John F., 98, 99, 100, 101, 110, 173, 197
Kennedy, John Jr., 291
Kepler, Johannes, 16, 49, 50, 52–53, 58
Kessel, John, 278
Kitt Peak (Arizona) telescope, 13, 14, 17, 19, 32
Korolev, Sergei, 98–99, 207
Kuiper, Gerard, 73
L5 movement/society, 186, 187, 189, 241
Lacus Mortis, 228
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, 167
“Lagrangian points”, 167, 185, 187, 188
landforms on the Moon, 48–49, 102
landing of Falcon, 289–290
landing on the Moon
ambitions and limitations, 129–130
and Anthropocene, 133–134
architecture approach, 102–103, 210
events and conversations in Apollo, 113–124
rocket development, 101–102
landing sites
Apollo, 112 (map), 113, 117, 119, 122, 123, 227
research, 1–2, 225, 226–228
in Return to the Moon, 225–226, 232, 236, 240, 281
Landis, Geoff, 232–233
“A Walk in the Sun”, 233
landscapes on the Moon, 12, 75–76, 95