Aerospace company Boeing is building the Starliner Spacecraft right here on site. It will fly on top of a Atlas 5 rocket. ibid.
He will come to take himself to the corner of Luna, where he will be taken and placed on foreign land. Nostradamus 9:65
NASA is planning a permanent outpost there. The Universe s1e5: The Moon, History 2007
Our moon is the largest in relation to its host planet. ibid.
The mean distance of the Earth from the moon is 234,000 miles. ibid.
Our closest neighbour is as mysterious as it is inextricably tied to our survival. Its silvery luminescence has captivated us since man first gazed at the stars. Closer inspection reveals an ever more potent source of myth, mystery and controversy. An unseen force that pulls the Earth around every second of the day. A source of illusion and wonder. The Universe s2e3: Mysteries of the Moon
While on the moon, Armstrong reported seeing what he called an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area. And the area seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it ... Scientists have witnessed similar occurrences. ibid.
The cause of Full Moon Fever here on Earth may be even harder to diagnose. What impact if any does the Full Moon have on our bodies and our minds? ibid.
And when only red or orange light reaches the lunar surface the moon appears to us as deep red – another optical phenomenon that adds to the moon’s mystique. ibid.
It outshines every other body in the night sky. ibid.
A moon also known as a satellite is a celestial body that orbits a planet. Or a smaller object such as a dwarf planet or asteroid. About 240 moons exist in our solar system alone. And yet Earth’s moon is the only satellite in the solar system that can perfectly eclipse the sun. The Universe s3e10: Strangest Things
What would happen if our moon suddenly disappeared? Global tsunamis decimate coastlines around the world as ocean waters surge toward the gravitation surge of the sun … Earth’s axis tilts wildly … Our planet becomes unrecognisable. The Universe s4e2: The Day The Moon Was Gone
A total eclipse: the brilliant sun suddenly obliterated by the black disc of the moon. The Universe s5e7: Total Eclipse
The Sun and the Moon appear to be the same size in the sky. ibid.
The moon’s history began four and half billion years ago with its apocalyptic creation ... A planetoid the size of Mars bore down on the molten still-forming Earth. Cosmic Collisions: Solar System, Discovery 2009
The Earth and moon share the same chemical composition. ibid.
The moon too can be eclipsed when the Earth lines up between the sun and the full moon. A lunar eclipse was considered no less an omen of evil doings, generating panic and great fear as the moon turned a menacing blood-red in the night sky. Solar Empire: Heavens Above, Discovery 2001
When the moon was first formed and very young it was entirely liquid rock – magma. The moon would have been like a blazing inferno in the sky. Neil F Comins, author What if the Moon Didn’t Exist?
The Honeymooners: 1 season, 39 episodes: ‘Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon.’ [Ralph’s catchphrase] Alan Yentob, The United States of Television I: America in Primetime, BBC 2013
Just from simple tidal conditions and simple chemistry: it’s all ultimately driven by the moon. Professor John Sutherland
One of the first motion pictures ever made: Georges Melies’ From The Earth to the Moon … an advanced lunar population of man-sized insects ruling a cold desolate world. UFO Files: Beyond the War of the Worlds, History 2005
If the moon travels just 10% further from where it resides today – 40,000 kilometres or so – we’ll reach a point of no return. That’s when the Earth’s rotation becomes chaotic, unpredictable and unable to support nearly all forms of life. Earth Without the Moon, 2010
In 1969 Apollo astronauts leave the first of three suitcase-sized boxes embedded with reflectors. ibid.
Without the moon’s gravity regular and predictable seasons would not have occurred. And plants and animals would not have evolved. ibid.
The moon is retreating at an ever-increasing rate. ibid.
It exerts an extraordinary influence on planet Earth keeping our world in balance. But why is it so powerful? ... Without the moon would we even be here? Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Do We Really Need the Moon? BBC 2011
What if the moon was in a different position: closer or further away. How different would our world be? ibid.
The gravitational force of the moon creates a bulge of water in the oceans. As the moon orbits the Earth it drags this bulge around the planet creating high and low tides. ibid.
If the moon were a just little closer than it is today the tidal bulge would grow. Low tides would be lower; high tides would be higher. ibid.
Another planet the size of Mars drifted into the path of Earth. It was on a collision course. It hit the Earth at a glancing blow ... The debris coalesced into a ball and the moon was formed. ibid.
One rotation every twenty-nine days. And that’s exactly the same speed as the moon orbits the Earth ... We never see the dark side of the moon. If we could, we would see it was riddled with craters. ibid.
It’s called the Transylvania Effect ... Does the moon really change our behaviour? Sadly, I don’t think so. ibid.
In the past a day wasn’t twenty-four hours ... The Earth must have been spinning faster ... The gravitational pull of the moon has been putting a break on the Earth. ibid.
393,499,257.798 metres. ibid.
The moon which has been drifting away from us for billions of years is still drifting. At a speed of 3.8 centimetres a year. In human terms that’s about the same speed that our fingernails grow. ibid.
As the moon moves away from us, how will life change here on Earth? ibid.
The moon which controls our tides and the spin of the Earth serves another critical function. It keeps us stable. ibid.
A tiny shift [of the Moon] and life on Earth could be very different. ibid.
The moon, they declared, was bone dry. But now they are changing their minds. ibid.
Thea [planatoid] hit the Earth at twenty-five thousand miles per hour, with the force of billions of mega-ton bombs. The impact ripped off huge sections of the Earth’s crust. Billions of tons of debris blasted into space. A ring of red hot dust and rock formed around the Earth. Over the next hundred years the rocks and dust slowly clumped together into a ball one fiftieth the size of Earth. We call it the Moon. Tony Robinson: Catastrophe: Birth of the Planet, Channel 4 2008
When the moon rose four billion years ago it wasn’t the familiar moon we see today. It was ten times closer to the Earth and dominated the horizon. ibid.
When astronauts landed on the moon they left behind the American flag and something else – reflectors. Almost daily Jerry Wiant and his colleague aim their laser at one of the lunar reflectors. They were measuring the precise distance between the moon and the earth. ibid.
The moon is spinning away from us at three point four centimetres per year. ibid.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible. James Joyce, Ulysses
The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood. W B Yeats, The Cat and the Moon