Lang, Fritz, 92–93
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 60
Laskar, Jacques, 149, 150
“Late Heavy Bombardment”, 154, 156–158
lava tubes on the Moon, 228–231
Leibniz Mountains, 157–158
Leitch, William, 87
Lem, Stanslaw, 181
LEM Spaceflight Visual Simulator, 108–109, 271
Ley, Willy, 88, 286
Lick Observatory, 2
Liebeskind, Daniel, 282
life on, and from, Earth, 148–149, 150–151, 154–156, 180
life on the Moon (imagined Moonpeople), 50–52, 56–57, 58
life signs in universe, 17, 18–19, 32–33, 34–35
light from the Moon (moonlight)
absorption of sunlight, 30–31
ashen light and earthshine, 14–17, 32, 35
full Moon vs. quarters, 47–48
for humans and creatures on Earth, 13, 62
and Moonpeople, 50
as reflection of Earth, 19–20
scientific revelations, 32–34
and shadows, 75
See also reflection off the Moon
limb, 7
Lindberg, Charles, and Charles Jr., 88–89
“The Linesman” (Miller), 250
Link, Edward, 108
Lipsky, Yuri, 167
liquid-fuelled rocket, 87–88, 92, 93
Lofting, Hugh, 144
Logsdon, John, 287–288
London, 1, 62, 89, 90, 291
Loonies (characters), 258–260, 262, 263
Los Angeles Times, 21–22
Lovell, Jim, 24
Lovelock, James, 18, 19, 32
Lower, William, 47
Luna 2 and 3, 201, 205
Luna City (location), 38, 258, 259, 266, 267
Luna Parks, 57
lunar eclipse, 80
lunar module (LM)
astronauts’ experiences, 110–111
development and description, 104–107, 108–109
first landing and flight, 102, 105
landing events and conversations, 113–117
launch from the Moon, 116–117
and moondust, 111–112
simulators, 108–109
windows and computers, 105–106, 107–109
lunar-orbit rendezvous, 102–103, 104
Lunar Prospector, 202, 203
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA), 2
Lunar Scouts, 227
“lunar swirls”, 226
lunisolar calendars, 9
LuxSpace, 203
maar, 70, 71
Madler, Johan, 233
Maestlin, Michael, 16
Maezawa, Yusaku, 205–206, 208, 214
magnetic field
of Earth, 221–223
of the Moon, 38, 225–226
of Tellus and Theia, 140
Magnetotail, of the Earth, 222–223
Magnus, Albertus, 41
Mailer, Norman, 91
Manny (character), 257, 258–260, 261–262, 266, 268–269
maps and mapmaking of the Moon, 2, 11–12, 43–44
Mare Crisium, 38
Mare Fecunditatis, 38
Mare Imbrium, 38, 68–69, 157, 158
Mare Ingenii, 38–39
Mare Muscoviense, 38–39, 48
Mare Nectaris, 38
Mare Orientale, 73
Mare Serenitatis, 38
Mare Tranquillitatis, 38
maria (or mare), 38–39, 154
See also seas on the Moon
Marius Hills, 228
Mars, 18, 37, 49, 52, 102, 135, 139, 142, 149–150, 155, 180, 193, 198, 215, 249, 279
atmosphere of, 18, 193
core of, 143
as destination for space travel, 102, 103, 172, 193–194, 278, 291, 193–194, 202, 211–214, 236, 290
as economic opportunity 195, 261
and life 156, 193, 291
meteorites from, 142, 148, 155–156, 160
moons of 149, 166
in science fiction, 52, 93, 94, 193–194
vs. the Moon, 194–195
mass of the Moon, 37–38
Mattingly, Ken, 75, 122
McAuley, Paul, 195
McDivitt, James, 107
McDonald, Ian, “New Moon”, 189, 230, 283
megaregolith, 126
Méliès, Georges, 57
memorials on the Moon, 203
men, 110
Mercury (deity), 255
Mercury (planet), 49, 74, 135, 139, 172, 193, 202, 255
core of, 143
Mercury mission, 101
Meteor (Barringer) Crater, 70–71, 178
meteorites, 30, 70–71, 126–127, 221
Michel, Helen Vaughn, 179
micrometeorites, 126–127, 221
Mike/Mycroft, 269–270, 274
Milner, Yuri, 277, 284, 285
Milton, John, 45
mining of oceans, 242
mining on the Moon
for energy, 184–185
helium-3, 188, 189–190
ice and volatiles, 192
interest in, 174–175, 192
platinum and aluminium, 190–191, 192
Mir trips, 196
missiles development, 99
Mitchell, Edgar, 119
Montes Apenninus (Apennines), 39
months, 8–9
Moon. See specific topics
Moon Direct, 210–211
Moon Express company, 3, 217, 227, 274
Moon Race competition, 216, 217
Moon Treaty (1978), 241, 242, 244–245
moonbases, 1–2, 94–95
in Return to the Moon, 214, 229–231, 232
Moonbounce test, 22
moondust. See dust of/on the Moon
moonless Earth, 151–153, 284
moonlight. See light from the Moon
Moonpeople, 50–52, 56–57, 58, 95, 246,
See also humans
moonrocks. See rocks on the Moon
moons of other planets, 37, 49, 53
Moonwalkers (walkers on the Moon), 5, 201
Moore, Jason, 264–265, 266
Moore, C. L., 95
Mountain View (California), 3
mountains and ranges on the Moon, 39, 67–68, 73–74, 75
multi-ring impact basins, 74
Muncy, Jim, 197
music, 23–24
Musk, Elon
and Mars, 194, 211
and the Moon, 214
in space business, 218
and space tourism, 208, 214
views on, 213, 218–219
Myers, Jack, 107
names of moons, 9
naming and nomenclature
epochs and ages, 131–132, 135, 136–137
features on the Moon, 48–50, 64
rules, 48, 49
NASA
big rocket development, 212
creation, 99
post-Apollo visits to the Moon, 201–202
Return to the Moon, 198, 212–213, 236–237
use of private flights, 209–212, 213
Nasmyth, James
“The Moon, Considered as a Planet, a World and a Satellite”, 60, 63–65, 274
Moon and volcanoes research, 59–62, 63, 67–68, 146, 162
photos and models, 64–65, 67
and tides, 62–63
National Academy of Sciences (US), 157
Navajo nation, 203
near-Earth asteroids, 166
nearside of the Moon, xii (map), 73, 79, 283–284
“The New Almagest” (Riccioli), 48–49
New Armstrong rocket, 215
New Glenn rocket, 215
new Moon. See phases of the Moon
New Shepard rocket, 215
New York, 95, 153, 233, 291
Newcomb, Simon, 98
NewLM, 210–211
Newton, Isaac, 52, 53–54
night-edge of the Moon, 7
–8
Nisbet, Euan, 137–138
Niven, Larry, 179
“Lucifer’s Hammer”, 179, 180, 185
Nixon, Richard, 115–116, 169–170, 173
Nördlinger Ries, 178
North Pole of the Moon, 235 (map)
See also poles of the Moon
Northrop Grumman, 209. See also Grumman
Nova rockets, 101–102
nuclear explosions. See atomic weapons
nuclear fusion, 188–189, 190
nuclear war, survival in space, 180–181
nuclear weapons. See atomic weapons and explosions
Obama administration, 198, 212
Oberth, Hermann, 86–87, 88, 92, 285
obliquity of the Moon, 159
obliquity of planets and Earth, 149–151
Observatoire de Haute-Provence, 11, 14, 17, 19, 32
Ocean of Storms landing site, 117
oceans on Earth, 31, 32–33, 242
tides, 3, 53–54, 62–63, 143, 144, 149
Oceanus Procellarum, 38, 39, 225, 228
O’Hanlon, James, 96
oikos, 262, 263, 268
old world vs. new world, 51–52
Oliveros, Pauline, 23
“On the Appearance of the Face in the Orb of the Moon” (Plutarch), 19
O’Neill, Gerard K., 183–186, 188, 238
Öpik, Ernst, 69
orbit (Earth, Moon and Sun), 16–17, 34, 44, 49, 152
orbit (objects), discoveries, 53
orbit of the Moon, 79–81
orbit of spacecraft, 102–103, 104, 165–167
orbital-refuge idea, 155–156
origins of universe, 34–35
Orion capsule, 212
“orphans of Apollo”, expectations, 170–171, 177–178, 195–196
“Orphans of Apollo” (documentary), 196, 197
Outer Space Treaty (UN), 174, 240–241, 244
oxygen, 84–85, 142–143, 146, 148
Paine, Thomas, 187–188
Pal, George, 96
past, knowledge about, 90
Paterson, Katie, 23
perigee, 79, 81
Perry, William, 22
Peruvian apple cactus, 13
Phanerozoic Eon, 136
phases of the Earth, 14, 50
phases of the Moon, 7–9, 254–255
crescent, 4, 11, 14, 15–16, 42, 49, 140, 255
full, 7, 8–9, 13, 14, 39, 42, 43, 44, 48, 54, 62, 80, 179, 221, 222, 282, 288
gibbous, 42–43, 49, 140
new, 8, 54, 79–80, 151,
“New Moon” (novel) 189, 230, 283
waning 4, 38, 42–43
waxing, 11, 38, 42
photos of the Moon, 43, 64–65, 73
from Apollo 8, 26–30, 31, 32
photosynthesis, 18, 33, 230
planetesimals and “planetary embryos”, 69, 138
planets beyond solar system. See exoplanets
planets of solar system
cores, 143
development, 138–139
geological timescales, 135
moons of, 37, 49, 53
obliquity, 149–151
orbit and ellipses, 49, 52–53
rocks on the Moon, 160–162
visits to, 202
plants and leaves, 13, 31–32, 33
platinum-group metals, 190, 192
Plato, 262
Plutarch, 19, 43
Pluto, 160
poles of the Earth, 29, 31
poles of the Moon
darkness and light, 159–160, 233, 236
exploitation, 192, 236
as landing sites and bases, 2, 225–226, 232, 236, 240
Potter, Michael, 196
Pournelle, Jerry, 179, 187
“Lucifer’s Hammer”, 179, 180, 185
power on the Moon and in space, 184, 232–233, 236
pregnancies in space, 249–251
prickishness, and undesirability thereof, 218–220, 245, 248
prison, planets and the Moon as, 258–259, 268–269
private missions and flights
development and technology, 208–218
and environmentalism, 185–187
first trip, 205–207, 214
vs. government, 197
as idea and vision, 178, 187, 197
O’Neill’s scheme, 183–186, 188
tycoons and determination, 172, 218–220
use by NASA and US, 209–212, 213
visits to the Moon, 203, 209–210
Proctor, Richard, 12, 60, 69
Prof (character), 259, 262, 263, 266–267
Project Diana, 21–22
Project Mercury, 99–100
propellants/fuel, 84–85, 87, 236, 238–239
pyroclastics, 227–228
Quarternary Period, 136
Queqiao spacecraft, 167
R-7 missile, 99
Rabbit, 13
radar transmission and work, 20–21, 22–23
radio astronomy, 22, 242–243, 284
radio hams, 23
Radio News magazine, 20–21
radio waves and communications, 20–24, 284
Ras Nouadhibou (North Africa), 29, 30
Rauschenberg, Robert, 86
rays from craters, 47–48, 49, 65, 69
Reader’s Digest, 97
“red edge” spectral feature, 33, 130, 194
Reeves, Eileen, 17
reflection off the Moon
and craters, 47–48, 49, 65, 69
Earth’s image, 19–20
radio waves, 20–22, 23–24
retroreflection, 47–48
sunlight, 14, 32–34, 75
regolith
dangers of, 247
description, 125–127
and exposure on the Moon, 221–222, 223
resources in, 184, 188, 227–228, 230, 236, 243
Reiner Gamma, 49
representation of the Moon, 41–44, 51–52, 73
resilience of/on Earth, 155
Return to the Moon
author’s outlook, 5–6, 178
China and US, 198, 214
colonisation, 216, 217–218
commerce and resources aspects, 238–241, 242–244, 245–247, 275
energy on the Moon, 232–233, 236
and exposure on the Moon, 223
and future of the Moon for humans, 274–283
human body and health, 229, 247–251
landing sites, 225–226, 232, 236, 240, 281
as media event, 206–207
moonbases, 214, 229–231, 232
NASA, 198, 212–213, 236–237
as reality, 205–208
research and science, 226–232, 284–286
rich people, 198–199
settlements and dwellings, 229–231
space stations, 236–238
treaties, laws, and interests, 240–246
Riccioli, Giovanni, 48–50
Richardson, Robert, 94–95
Rima Bode region, 227–228
Roberts, Adam, 51
robot spacecraft on the Moon, 201–202, 209–210, 216–217, 225–228
rockets and rocketry
big rockets, 211–212
in cinema, 92–93
development history, 86, 87, 88, 89, 93–94, 98–99
landing, 101–102
launches, 287–289
as military tool, 88
in science fiction, 92, 94
Soviets vs. US, 98–99
starshots from far side, 284–286
rocks from the Moon on Earth, 30
rocks on Earth, 131–132
rocks on the Moon (moonrocks)
and birth of the Moon and Earth, 142–143, 145, 146
description, 125–126
from Earth and planets, 160–162
“Genesis rock”, 120–122, 146
and impacts, 125, 126, 157–158
as mass of the Moon, 37
retroreflection, 47–4
8
temperature, 30–31
Rook Mountains, 73
Roosa, Stuard, 119
rotation of the Moon, 73, 81
Rothko, Mark, 28
rover on the Moon, 122–123
Rudaux, Lucien, 67
Rudolf II, 20
Russia, 196
See also Soviet Union
Sarpi, Paolo, 16
satellite, Moon as, 62, 63
satellites
for communications, 21, 22, 23, 99, 174
for solar power, 184–185
satire of astronomers, 55–57
Saturn, 49, 99, 156, 172, 202
moons of (see Titan)
Saturn rockets, 99
Saturn V rockets, 84–86, 102
Schmidt, Johann Andreas, 51
Schmitt, Harrison, 123–124, 189, 227, 247
Schweickart, Rusty, 105, 107
science and technology
from Apollo programme, 171–172
and control, 268–272
experiments on the Moon, 276–278
as false solution to problems, 182–183
and the future, 91–92
impact on universe, 133–134
private development, 208–218
and Return to the Moon, 226–232, 284–286
Second World War, 93–94
science fiction
in cinema, 95–96
computers, 269–270, 274
focus and change of, 89–90, 92, 93
impacts and bombardments, 179
life and liberty beyond Earth, 260–261
minerals on the Moon, 174–175
spaceflight stories, 96–97
tropes and pillars, 92, 94, 98
war and weapons in, 94–95, 98, 180–181
Scott, David, 119–122, 203
Scott Heron, Gil, 130
Sea of Tranquility landing site, 113
seas on the Moon
as basalt, 73–74
dryness, 55
in Middle Ages, 15, 46, 48
naming, 48
origin and location, 282
seasons, 80, 149
Second World War, 93
“secondary light”, 15, 17
Selenites. See Moonpeople
service module, 102, 103
Serviss, Garrett P., 93
settlement on the Moon, 192, 229
shadows on the Moon, 75, 159
Shakespeare, William, 41, 52
Shaw, George Bernard, 220
Shayon, Robert Lewis, 206
Shelby, Richard, 212–213
Shepard, Alan, 101, 119, 215
Shoemaker, Carolyn, 86, 179
Shoemaker, Gene, 83, 86, 135, 203
impact studies, 70–71, 178, 179
Shonibare, Yinka, 110
sidereal month, 80
simulation, 271–274
size of the Moon, 37–38, 79
Sleep, Norm, 137–138, 155, 179
Sobel, Dava, 111
society and future, 260, 261–262, 267, 269, 275, 277–281
Soddy, Frederick, 90
solar calendars, 9
solar eclipse, 79–80
solar energy, 184–185, 189, 212, 232–233, 236, 244, 286
solar power, 184, 185, 232, 236
solar proton event, 229
solar system, 60–61, 137–139, 156