Liftoff! Back to the Moon

Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

-Walt Disney

In the next two lessons you will explore what we know and what we have yet to discover about the moon. You will review our past visits to the Moon, and the reasons why scientists wish to return. You will discover some ways that we might be able to return to the moon in this century. In this lesson, Back to the Moon, we will focus primarily on the geology of the moon and the Apollo Program. What we learned from Apollo, and what we have left to learn about living on the moon.

Why do we want to return to the Moon?
What do we have yet to discover there?
How could we use the Moon for research, fun and profit? What countries and organizations are funding efforts to return to the Moon?
What types of facilities might we build there, and what experiments might we conduct?
Where would we want to go and why?

You will look at different scenarios for returning to the moon and types of spacecraft before you design your own mission profile.

In the following lesson, Moon Base Alpha, you will look at the rationale and designs for a permanent lunar colony.

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Next... Lunar Geology