See also planets of solar system
solar wind, 188, 222, 227, 228
South Pole-Aitken basin, 157, 159, 167, 198, 225, 243
South Pole of the Moon, 235 (map)
See also poles of the Moon
Soviet Union, 22, 48, 98–99, 100, 241
space industry, 187–188, 195, 208–218
See also mining on the Moon; space tourism
Space Launch System (SLS), 212–213, 237
Space Race, 171
space shuttle, 173–174, 209, 212
space stations, as bases, 102, 103, 236–238
space tourism
first tourists, 205–208
as idea and business, 195–197, 279, 281–282
and rich people, 196–197, 198–199
SpaceX, 208, 214
space travel
development, 86–89
as possibility, 83, 86, 88, 92, 93
and radio communications, 21
spacecraft
orbit, 102–103, 104, 165–167
speed and velocity, 165–166
successes and failures, 201–203
spaceflight
belief in and vision for, 176–177
development in US, 99–101, 209–210
expectations post-Apollo, 169–171, 177–178, 195
as false solution, 182–183
non-US countries, 178, 197, 225
reasons for, 172, 174–177, 179–180, 181–184, 195–196
SpaceIL, 217, 225
spacesuits, 106, 109–111
SpaceX
description, 208–209, 213–214, 218
successes, 208
use by US government, 209–211, 212, 213–214
Specular reflection, 30, 32, 46
speed, as modern pleasure, 91, 174
spheres, representation, 73
Spider. See Apollo 9
Spudis, Paul, 228
stamps, 176
“Star Wars” (movie), 27, 28
stars, 55, 80
starshots, 284–286
Stephenson, Neal, 261
stories of the Moon, 13, 253–256
stuffe, bright, vaines of, 47
See also rays
Sun
energy, 31–32
orbit and path, 16, 49, 152
sunlight, 14, 30–34, 75, 222–223
sunsets, 42
supermoons, 79
superweapons, 94, 98. See also atomic weapons and explosions
surface of the Moon
dangers for settlement, 229, 247
and evolution of the Moon, 61–62
and exposure, 221–223
features and description, 38, 75–76, 125, 232, 284
illumination from, 75
Swanwick, Michael, 180, 276
synodic month, 81
TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch), 259, 263, 266, 267
Taurus Littrow landing site, 123, 227
Teapot ESS crater, 70
technology. See science and technology
telescope, and Galileo, 15, 45
telescope, radio. See radio astronomy
Teller, Edward, 70
Tellus and Theia collision, 139–143, 144–147
temperature on the Moon, 30–31, 159–160, 229, 160
Tennyson, Lord (Alfred), 98
Tereshkova, Valentina, 110
terminator, 7–8
Theia and Tellus collision, 139–143, 144–147
“Theory of the Earth” (Hutton), 63
tidal locking, 81
tides, 3, 53–54, 62–63, 143, 144, 149
Time, photo of Earth, 27
time and the Moon, 8–9, 120
time translated into space, 91, 93
Titan (moon of Saturn), 37
totalitarianism, 182, 262
trajectories, 165–167, 205
“free return” trajectory, 205, 214
transpermia, 156
treaties and conventions, 240–245
Treaty of Versailles, 89
Tristão, Nuno, 29–30
Truman, Harry, 98
Trump, Donald, 198, 236
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 87–88, 155, 246
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (movie), 28, 57, 226, 231
Tycho Brahe, 49
Tycho crater, 39, 47, 49, 65, 68, 69, 126, 127, 179, 221, 226, 278, 279
ultraviolet radiation, 222–223
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, 241–242
United Launch Alliance (ULA), 213
United States (US)
landing on the Moon project, 101, 103
and Mars, 194
missiles, 98–99
post-Apollo programme, 170–171, 173–174, 201–202
private flights use, 209–212, 213
Return to the Moon, 198
SLS rocket, 212–213
spaceflight development, 99–101, 209–210
technological advances, 93–94, 100
and treaties, 241–242, 244
See also Apollo programme
US army, 21, 22, 99
US Geological Survey, 2, 12, 70, 83, 86
V-2 rockets, 83, 86, 93
van Eyck, Jan, 42–43
Varley, John, 271–273, 282
Venus, 18, 49, 135, 139, 148, 160–161, 193, 202, 255
atmosphere of 18, 149, 161
core of 143
crust of 74,
meteorites from, on the Moon
Venus (deity), 255
Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR), 86, 89
Vernadsky, Vladimir, 98
Verne, Jules, 65–66, 90, 134, 190
“Around the Moon”, 65, 69
“From the Earth to the Moon”, 65–66, 92, 134, 191
Vesuvius, 59–60
Vikram lander, 225
Virgin Galactic, 215
volcanoes, 59–60, 61, 66
von Braun, Wernher, 93, 99, 101, 102, 272
von Mayer, Julius, 60
Waldrop, Howard, 89
walkers on Moon (Moonwalkers), 5, 110–124, 201
Waltham, David, 150–151
war on Earth, and survival in space, 180–181
Ward, Peter, 148, 149, 150
water in the Moon stories, 255–256
water on Earth, 31
See also tides
water on the Moon, 14–15, 46, 48, 158–160
See also seas on the Moon
waxing, 8
weathering of the Moon, 221–222
Weinberger, Cap, 173
Wells, H. G., 91, 98, 261
western hemisphere of the Moon, 77 (map)
Whitaker, Ewen, 49
Whitman, Walt, 3–4
Wilkins, John, 50, 51, 55
windows on lunar module, 105, 107
Wingo, Dennis, 189, 190, 232
Woerner, Jan, 245
“The Woman in the Moon” (movie by Lang), 92–93
women, 93, 97, 110, 249–251, 260
wonder at the Moon, 57–58, 292
Worden, Alfred, 119
Worden, Pete, 277
Young, John, 122–123
Zahnle, Kevin, 137–138, 155, 179
zodiac constellations, 80
Zubrin, Robert, 194, 210, 236, 278
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