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Look up lunar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lunar most commonly means "of or relating to the Moon". Lunar may also refer to: Lunar (series), a series...

a distance roughly 30 times the width of Earth. It completes an orbit (lunar month) in relation to Earth and the Sun (synodically) every 29.5 days. The...

A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a crewed or robotic spacecraft on the Moon. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2...

A lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon, is an astronomical event that occurs when the Moon orbits through Earth's shadow.‍‍ Lunar eclipses occur during...

landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command...

by Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, all of whom were on their second and final...

al-hijrī), also known in English as the Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine...

distance from the center of Earth to the center of the Moon. In contrast, the Lunar distance (LD or Δ ⊕ L {\textstyle \Delta _{\oplus L}} ), or Earth–Moon characteristic...

Lunar Lake is the codename for Core Ultra 200V Series mobile processors designed by Intel, released in September 2024. It is a successor to Meteor Lake...

high-definition photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites have captured the Lunar Module descent stages and the tracks...

A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's day and night phases of the lunar day as viewed from afar. Because the Moon is tidally...

A lunar calendar is a calendar whose months record the cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations). This in contrast to solar calendars, whose...

lunar highlands. It was the last of the "H missions", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extravehicular...

Moon for the first time since the Apollo program and building a permanent lunar base. It was formally established via Space Policy Directive-1 in 2017 by...

Apollo's "J missions", with an extended stay on the lunar surface, a focus on science, and the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The landing and exploration...

The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15...

recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot...

and Gene Cernan flew the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) to within 14.4 kilometers (7.8 nautical miles; 9 miles) of the lunar surface, the point at which powered...

Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean completed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module...

exploration of the Moon beginning in 1959. The first partially successful lunar mission was Luna 1 in January 1959, which became the first probe to escape...

Lunar regolith is the unconsolidated material found on the surface of the Moon and in the Moon's tenuous atmosphere. Lunar soil typically refers to only...

The Lunar Gateway was a planned space station that would have been assembled in orbit around the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Derived from earlier...

Lunar maria (/ˈmæri.ə/ MARR-ee-ə) (Singular: mare /ˈmɑːreɪ, -i/ MAR-ay, MAR-ee) are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by lava flowing...

A lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon. As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander...

A trans-lunar injection (TLI) is a propulsive maneuver used to send a spacecraft toward the Moon. Typical lunar transfer trajectories approximate Hohmann...

Apollo Lunar Module (LM /ˈlɛm/), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit...

substantial natural resources which could be exploited in the future. Potential lunar resources may encompass processable materials such as volatiles and minerals...

Apollo 15 saw the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The mission began on July 26 and ended on August 7, with the lunar surface exploration taking place...

A moonbase (or lunar base) is a human outpost on or below the surface of the Moon. More than a mere site of activity or temporary camp, moonbases are...

spaceflight mission, planned to be the second crewed mission in NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, with a targeted launch in late 2027. A crew of four...

Lunar is a role-playing video game series created by Game Arts and Studio Alex. The story takes place on the moon "Lunar", which orbits an uninhabitable...

on the lunar surface in a program known as the Commercial Lunar Payload Services. As of March 2022, NASA has awarded contracts for robotic lunar probes...

In lunar calendars, a lunar month is the time between two successive syzygies of the same type: new moons or full moons. The precise definition varies...

he had to eject from the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle moments before a crash. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) pilot Buzz Aldrin...

Lunar arithmetic, formerly called dismal arithmetic, is a version of arithmetic in which the addition and multiplication operations on digits are defined...

The lunar limb is the edge of the visible surface (disc) of the Moon as viewed from Earth. Seen from afar, it looks like a circular arc, but with higher...

The Lunar Chronicles is a series of four young adult science fiction novels, a novella, and a short story collection written by American author Marissa...

Blue Moon is a family of lunar landers and their associated infrastructure, intended to carry humans and cargo to the Moon, under development by a consortium...

successful two-man landing missions, twelve men walked on the lunar surface, six of whom drove Lunar Roving Vehicles as part of the last three missions. Three...

Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical...

The Lunar dynasty (IAST: Candravaṃśa) is a lineage or dynasty which claims to be descended from Chandra or Soma (the Hindu lunar deity). According to the...

The search for the presence of lunar water has attracted considerable attention and motivated several recent lunar missions, largely because of water's...

A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo program's Lunar Roving Vehicle was...

A lunar standstill or lunistice (reminiscent of solstice) is the relative position of the Moon furthest north or furthest south from the celestial equator...

In astronomy and spaceflight, a lunar orbit (also known as a selenocentric orbit) is an orbit by an object around Earth's Moon. In general these orbits...

Lunar Owls Basketball Club, also known as Lunar Owls BC, is an American professional basketball team. They are a member of the Unrivaled basketball league...

Lunar New Year marks the beginning of a new year according to lunar calendars or, informally but commonly, to lunisolar calendars. Because a year of twelve...

Informally, a lunar day and a lunar night are each approximately 14 Earth days. The formal lunar day is therefore the time of a full lunar day-night cycle...

Often called lunar mansion, a lunar station or lunar house is a segment of the ecliptic through which the Moon passes in its orbit around the Earth. The...

Tycho (/ˈtaɪkoʊ/) is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. It is around...

made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Following the deaths of...

239 anomalistic months. Arising naturally due to synchronization between lunar phase, nodal precession, and apsidal precession, it can be used to predict...

The lunar effect is a link between different stages of the 29.5-day lunar cycle and the behavior and physiology of various species, purportedly including...

astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot who, as Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, became the 10th and youngest person to...

(Human Landing System) is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the...

1968 to a more ambitious command-module-only lunar orbital flight to be flown in December, as the lunar module was not yet ready to make its first flight...

A lunar sortie (or lunar sortie mission) is a human spaceflight mission to the Moon. In contrast with lunar outpost missions, lunar sorties will be of...

for timekeeping based on sidereal year for solar cycle and adjustment of lunar cycles in every three years, but differ in their relative emphasis to moon...

Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the Apollo Lunar Module that was the first crewed lunar lander flown by humans to the Moon. Part of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission...

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) is the practice of measuring the distance between the surfaces of the Earth and the Moon using laser ranging. The distance can...

program sent 24 astronauts on nine crewed lunar missions. Six of the missions landed two astronauts each on the lunar surface, while Apollo 8 and Apollo 10...

Lunar Prospector was a spacecraft that orbited the Moon for 19 months in 1998-99. From a low polar orbit, it mapped surface composition including lunar...

Moon rock or lunar rock is rock originating from Earth's Moon. This includes lunar material collected during the course of human exploration of the Moon...

new moon. As 12 such months comprise a total of just 354 days, an extra lunar month is added every 2 or 3 years so that the long-term average year length...

of two landing systems selected by NASA for the Artemis program's crewed Lunar missions. SpaceX calls the entire launch vehicle "Starship", which consists...

The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP; Chinese: 中国探月工程; pinyin: Zhōngguó Tànyuè Gōngchéng), also known as the Chang'e Project (Chinese: 嫦娥工程; pinyin:...

The Soviet crewed lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land humans on the Moon, in competition with the United States...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1982: 9 January 1982 lunar eclipse 6 July 1982 lunar eclipse 30 December 1982 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses...

Lunar Outpost is a private space company headquartered in Golden, Colorado, USA. It is active in the areas of space robotics, lunar surface mobility,...

be the third crewed mission and the first Moon landing in NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program, marking the first crewed Moon landing since Apollo...

This article gives statistics for lunar eclipses grouped by century. Detailed information about tetrads, timing, and other facts can be found at the linked...

Surveyor program — US Lunar soft-landing probe (1966–1968) Lunar Orbiter program — US Lunar orbital (1966–1967) Lunokhod program — USSR Lunar Rover probes (1970–1973)...

The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists...

Lunar habitation is any human habitation on the Moon. Lunar habitation is provided by surface habitats, possibly as part of a moonbase. Lunar habitats...

life-support system. The crew, supported by backup systems on the Apollo Lunar Module, instead looped around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and returned...

A lunar deity or moon deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it. These deities can have a variety of functions and traditions depending...

The most common type of pre-modern calendar was the lunisolar calendar, a lunar calendar that occasionally adds one intercalary month to remain synchronized...

the ability of the spacecraft to carry out a lunar landing mission. Apollo achieved the first crewed lunar landing on the Apollo 11 mission, when Neil...

Lunar Strain is the debut studio album by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released in April 1994. The album is noted for its elements of black metal...

calendar that is inserted to keep the lunar calendar aligned with the months of the year. The adhika-masa is an extra lunar month added to the solar calendar...

unburned propellant needed to send the Apollo command and service module and Lunar Module to the Moon. It is the fourth most powerful rocket by thrust at launch...

Lunar Jim is a Canadian science fiction stop-motion animated television series that aired from 2 January 2006 to 19 October 2007. The show focuses on...

Lunar: The Silver Star is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts in association with Studio Alex for the Sega/Mega-CD, originally published...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1967: 24 April 1967 lunar eclipse 18 October 1967 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements...

Lunar: Eternal Blue is a 1994 role-playing video game developed by Game Arts in association with Studio Alex for the Sega CD as the sequel to Lunar: The...

The full moon is the lunar phase when the Moon appears fully illuminated from Earth's perspective. This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and...

A lunar terrane is a major geologic province on the Moon. Three terranes have been identified on the Moon: the Procellarum KREEP Terrane, the Feldspathic...

Lunar Knights, known in Japan as Bokura no Taiyō: Django & Sabata (ボクらの太陽 Django & Sabata; "Our Sun: Django & Sabata") and abbreviated Boktai DS, is an...

element of settling the Moon (the establishing and expanding of lunar habitation), lunar or space colonization as a whole has become contested for perpetuating...

Apollo 15 mission, a more robust, damage-resistant camera was used on the lunar surface. All of these cameras required signal processing back on Earth to...

A lunar module is a lunar lander designed to allow astronauts to travel between a spacecraft in lunar orbit and the lunar surface. As of 2026, the Apollo...

also refer to: Lunar Eclipse (album), an album by David Bryan from the band Bon Jovi Lunar Eclipse (film), a 1999 Chinese film "Lunar Eclipse" (Moonlighting)...

Lunar Park is a metafictional novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, presented as a mock memoir. It was released by Knopf in 2005. It was the first...

A lunar node is either of the two orbital nodes of the Moon; that is, the two points at which the orbit of the Moon intersects the orbit of Earth (the...

Lunar lava tubes are lava tubes on the Moon formed during the eruption of basaltic lava flows. When the surface of a lava flow cools, it hardens and the...

consistent with the magma ocean hypothesis. In terms of elements, the lunar crust is composed primarily of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium...

sustained lunar exploration in future Artemis missions. Artemis II's mission objectives were similar to those of Apollo 8 in 1968, the first crewed lunar flight...

penumbral lunar eclipse List of saros series for lunar eclipses – counts by saros number Tetrad – four total lunar eclipses within two years Lunar eclipses...

(JAXA) SELENE lunar probe obtained several photographs showing evidence of Moon landings. On the left are two photographs taken on the lunar surface by astronauts...

Moon alone. In 1972, he commanded Apollo 16 and spent three days on the lunar surface exploring the Descartes Highlands with Charles Duke. Young also...

called selenology, although the latter term can refer more generally to "lunar science") is the structure and composition of the Moon, which is quite different...

Two lunar eclipses occurred in 1956: 24 May 1956 partial lunar eclipse 18 November 1956 total lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of...

consisted of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second...

The Lunar Flag Assembly (LFA) was a kit containing a flag of the United States designed to be erected on the Moon during the Apollo program. Six such...

The International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) (Chinese: 国际月球科研站, Russian: Международная научная лунная станция) is a planned lunar base led by Roscosmos...

Lunar Lander is a genre of video games loosely based on the 1969 landing of the Apollo Lunar Module on the Moon. In Lunar Lander games, players control...

The lunar penetrometer was a spherical electronic tool that served to measure the load-bearing characteristics of the Moon in preparation for spacecraft...

is, while stable and known, highly complex, and as such still studied by lunar theory. Most models describe the Moon's orbit geocentrically since the Moon...

Lunar: Dragon Song, known in Japan and Europe as Lunar Genesis (LUNAR(ルナ)-ジェネシス-, Runa Jenesisu), is a role-playing video game developed by Japan Art...

Though lunar landings since the conclusion of the Apollo program in 1972 have ceased, interest in establishing a permanent habitation on the lunar surface...

The lunar south pole is the southernmost point on the Moon. It is of interest to scientists because of the occurrence of water ice in permanently shadowed...

Lunar theory attempts to account for the motions of the Moon. There are many small variations (or perturbations) in the Moon's motion, and many attempts...

A transient lunar phenomenon (TLP) or lunar transient phenomenon (LTP) is a short-lived change in light, color or appearance on the surface of the Moon...

Lunar Pathfinder is a future lunar communications satellite and a precursor to the Moonlight constellation, under development by the European Space Agency...

festival is also called "Lunar New Year" in English, despite the traditional Chinese calendar being lunisolar and not lunar. However, "Chinese New Year"...

The DARPA lunar programs, are a series of programs aimed at developing shareable, scalable commercial systems for a lunar economy developed by U.S. agency...

A lunar deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it. Lunar deities and Moon worship can be found throughout most of recorded history...

Lunar Legend (LUNAR(ルナ)レジェンド, Runa Rejendo) is a 2002 role-playing video game for Game Boy Advance developed by Japan Art Media and published internationally...

LUNAR-A was a cancelled Japanese spacecraft project that was originally scheduled to be launched in 1995, then delayed to August 2004. After many delays...

The Lunar Explorers Society is an organisation dedicated to achieving permanent presence of humanity on the Moon. The Society is open to all people in...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by...

Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser, and his seventh studio album, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy, was released in 2021. His eighth...

the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude. At this phase, the lunar disk is not visible to the naked...

ἐννεακαίδεκα, "nineteen") is a period of almost exactly 19 years after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of the year. The recurrence is not perfect...

Artemis V is planned to be the fourth crewed mission and second lunar landing of the NASA-led Artemis program. The mission is expected to see the first...

roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phases – see lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely...

partial lunar eclipses occurred in 1988: 3 March 1988 lunar eclipse 27 August 1988 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

crewed lunar surface lander, is a spacecraft under development by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). Astronauts will travel to low lunar orbit...

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, originally released in Japan as simply Lunar: Silver Star Story, is a 1996 role-playing video game developed by Game...

artificial objects, such as a hammer and other tools, retroreflectors, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Packages, or the commemorative, artistic, and personal...

Lunar tourism may be possible if trips to the Moon are made available to a private audience. Some space tourism startup companies are planning to offer...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1985: 4 May 1985 lunar eclipse 28 October 1985 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1957: 13 May 1957 lunar eclipse 7 November 1957 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

and 1970s. In a LOR mission, a main spacecraft and a lunar lander travel to lunar orbit. The lunar lander then independently descends to the surface of...

Cis-Lunar was a manufacturing company that produced automatic, computer-controlled, and closed-circuit rebreathers for astronauts and underwater divers...

calendars involve correlations of the cycles of the sun (solar) and the moon (lunar). The first lunisolar calendar was the Zhou calendar (周曆; 周历), introduced...

Lunar swirls are enigmatic features found across the Moon's surface, which are characterized by having a high albedo, appearing optically immature (i...

where a lunar satellite can stay in a low orbit indefinitely. Lunar subsatellites were released on two of the last three Apollo crewed lunar landing missions...

outgrowth of the Lunar Flying Vehicle by Bell Aerospace (a lunar surface mobility design that was cancelled in favor of the less risky Lunar Rover). As NASA...

Lunar Vacation are an American indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. The band consists of Gep Repasky, on vocals and guitar, Maggie Geeslin, on guitar...

Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) is a handheld commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) camera which will be used in NASA's Artemis lunar program. The camera...

commercial and government exploration of the Moon. Today the company offers lunar surface access for transportation and payload delivery, data transmission...

A lunar space elevator or lunar spacelift is a proposed transportation system for moving a mechanical climbing vehicle up and down a ribbon-shaped tethered...

Lunar phase refers to the shape of the moon's sunlit portion as viewed from Earth. Lunar phase may also refer to: Lunar Phase is a 2025 album by American...

United States Apollo Lunar Modules flown on lunar landing missions Apollo 11 through Apollo 17, to be left permanently on the lunar surface. The plaques...

Lunar Remastered Collection is a video game compilation developed by Ashibi Co. and published by GungHo Online Entertainment, containing remastered versions...

Lunar Magic is a level editor created by FuSoYa for Super Mario World that allows the user to edit and create custom graphics, blocks, sprites, levels...

designed to transport crews from lunar orbit to the lunar surface, support them during surface operations, and return them to lunar orbit. Two HLS designs are...

the Sun (making a solar year), lunar calendars are governed by revolution of the Moon around the Earth (making a lunar month) and lunisolar calendars...

Lunar Pool (known as Lunar Ball (ルナーボール, Runā Bōru) in Japan) is a sports video game. It was developed in 1985 by Compile for the NEC PC-8000 series (in...

The design was based on the lunar orbit rendezvous approach: two docked spacecraft were sent to the Moon and went into lunar orbit. While the LM separated...

The Lunar Hilton is a proposed hotel on the Moon, which would be operated by the Hilton Hotels company. Rumours of the concept began with a space-themed...

in June 1966, as Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing. He was also...

The Lunar X (also known as the Werner X) is a clair-obscur effect in which light and shadow creates the appearance of a letter 'X' on the rim of the Blanchinus...

that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module (LM). The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for...

Lunar CATALYST (Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) initiative was a NASA effort to encourage the development of robotic lunar landers...

not. As a result, the "a" is often included in brackets in the quote. The Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Moon as part of Apollo 11 in 1969. After Armstrong...

presence of volcanoes, pyroclastic deposits and vast lava plains on the lunar surface. The volcanoes are typically in the form of small domes and cones...

Lunar precession is a term used for three different precession motions related to the Moon. First, it can refer to change in orientation of the lunar...

partial lunar eclipses occurred in 1970: 21 February 1970 lunar eclipse 17 August 1970 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

Copernicus Crater is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. T. W. Webb describes it as "one of the grandest craters" with "a central...

Routine is a 2025 survival horror game developed by Lunar Software and published by Raw Fury. Set on a lunar base, the story follows an unnamed protagonist...

Lunar Lander is a 1979 space flight simulation video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. It was the most popular version of the "Lunar...

since the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights). In astronomy, a lunar fortnight is half a lunar synodic month, which is equivalent to the mean period between...

spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis I marked the agency's return to lunar exploration after the conclusion of the Apollo program nearly five decades...

and robotic exploration of the lunar surface. These explorations will be more focused towards areas such as the lunar poles and the far side of the moon...

Earthrise is a photograph of Earth taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer...

Лунный корабль, romanized: Lunniy korabyl, lit. 'lunar craft'; GRAU index: 11F94) was a lunar module (lunar lander designed for human spaceflight) developed...

benchmarks such as the first lunar impact, first photos of the Moon's far side, first soft lunar landing, and first lunar orbit. These accomplishments...

The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) is an unpressurized rover being developed for NASA. Astronauts would be able to drive the LTV on the surface of the Moon...

The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), or lunar cataclysm, is a hypothesized astronomical event thought to have occurred approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years...

Indian Lunar Exploration Programme is an ongoing series of outer space missions by ISRO for the exploration of the Moon. The program incorporates a lunar orbiter...

In lunar astronomy, libration is the cyclic variation in the apparent position of the Moon that is perceived by observers on the Earth and caused by changes...

solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also...

(APS) or lunar module ascent engine (LMAE) is a fixed-thrust hypergolic rocket engine developed by Bell Aerosystems for use in the Apollo Lunar Module ascent...

The Bell Aerosystems Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV, nicknamed the Flying Bedstead) was a Project Apollo era program to build a simulator for the...

are the length of a day on the Moon, being the lunar day or lunar month, observable from Earth as the lunar phases, and the rate at which time progresses...

ARCT-021, also known as LUNAR-COV19, is a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Arcturus Therapeutics. It requires the intramuscular injection with...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1986: 24 April 1986 lunar eclipse 17 October 1986 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

Lunar system may refer to: Earth–Moon system The Hill sphere of a moon Subsatellite, a natural or artificial satellite orbiting another natural satellite...

The Lunar I-Hab (formerly known as International Habitation Module, International Habitat or I-HAB) was designed as a habitat module of the Lunar Gateway...

Lunar Muzik is the third studio album by Ant-Bee, released in 1997 by Divine Records. Adapted from Lunar Muzik liner notes. Couture, François. "Ant-Bee:...

Lunar seismology is the study of ground motions of the Moon and the events, typically impacts or moonquakes, that excite them. Several seismographic measuring...

horizon and disappears below it, respectively. The exact times depend on the lunar phase and declination, as well as the observer's location. As viewed from...

A lunar regolith simulant is a terrestrial material synthesized in order to approximate the chemical, mechanical, engineering, mineralogical, or particle-size...

The Lunar Surface Magnetometer (LSM) was a lunar science experiment with the aim of providing insights into the interior of the Moon and how its latent...

development by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology for crewed lunar missions, flights to the Tiangong space station, and commercial launches...

Founded in 1984 by Jeff Smith, Gerard Furbershaw and Robert Brunner, LUNAR (Lunar Design) is a product design and development consultancy headquartered...

NASA also studied Lunar Escape Systems as a means of returning two astronauts from the lunar surface to an orbiting CSM if the Lunar Module ascent-stage...

Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module Eagle at approximately 20:17:40 UTC. Armstrong exited the spacecraft...

A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, with an umbral magnitude of 1.1507. A lunar eclipse occurs...

Lunar Flashlight was a low-cost CubeSat lunar orbiter mission to explore, locate, and estimate size and composition of water ice deposits on the Moon...

Lunar IceCube was a NASA nanosatellite orbiter mission that was intended to prospect, locate, and estimate amount and composition of water ice deposits...

The Korea Lunar Lander and Rover is a lunar lander currently under development by South Korea, scheduled to be launched in 2032. The lunar lander is the...

horizon during lunar orbit. Koch captured the image using a Nikon D5 camera. The image shows Earth setting behind the cratered lunar surface, with the...

lunar meteorite is a meteorite that is known to have originated on the Moon. A meteorite hitting the Moon is normally classified as a transient lunar...

test as part of Artemis III, currently scheduled for 2027, and a crewed lunar landing scheduled for 2028. SpaceX began developing concepts for a super...

and AS-205. These would be followed by the first uncrewed flight of the Lunar Module (LM) on AS-206, then the third crewed mission, designated AS-207/208...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1978: 24 March 1978 lunar eclipse 16 September 1978 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

Two lunar eclipses occurred in 1963: 6 July 1963 partial lunar eclipse 30 December 1963 total lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of...

saros is linked to Solar Saros 140. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 133, Fred Espenak www.hermit...

partial lunar eclipses occurred in 1961: 2 March 1961 lunar eclipse 26 August 1961 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

highly accurate elevation models of the lunar surface, intended to guide the selection of landing sites for future lunar lander missions. It will also explore...

Lunar: Sanposuru Gakuen (LUNAR(ルナ) さんぽする学園; lit. "Lunar: Walking School") is a role-playing video game in the Lunar series released for the Sega Game...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1989: 20 February 1989 lunar eclipse 17 August 1989 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures ("Selenites") inhabits the lunar interior. The first-person narrator Mr. Bedford, a businessman, recounts...

Lunar X Prize. The company is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their first launch occurred on January 8, 2024, as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload...

Müller is a lunar impact crater. It was named after Austrian astronomer Karl Müller. It is located in the highlands near the center of the Moon, in the...

of three astronauts and the second Apollo spacecraft, the Apollo Lunar Module, to lunar orbit, and brought the astronauts back to Earth. It consisted of...

principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the lunar terrane identifying maria, craters, mountain ranges, and other various features...

1990), better known by his stage name Lunar C, is an English rapper. Between his rap battles in Don't Flop, Lunar C has accumulated over eight million...

A lunisolar calendar is a calendar that combines monthly lunar cycles with the solar year. As with all calendars which divide the year into months, there...

"Tết" itself only means "festival", but it would generally refer to the Lunar New Year in Vietnamese, as it is often seen as the most important festival...

Prospector was a proposed lunar probe that was intended to be flown in support of the Apollo lunar missions. Prospector arose as a result of President...

a lunar impact crater that lies in the northwest part of the Moon's near side. It is considered the brightest of the large formations on the lunar surface...

the southern hemisphere of the lunar far side and returned to Earth a month later on June 25 with humanity's first lunar samples retrieved from the far...

Luna 26 (Luna-Resurs-Orbiter or Luna-Resurs O) is a planned lunar polar orbiter, part of the Luna-Glob program, by Roscosmos. In addition to its scientific...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1996: 4 April 1996 lunar eclipse 27 September 1996 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

calendar and used for official and most day-to-day purposes, and the Thai lunar calendar (a version of the Buddhist calendar, technically a lunisolar calendar)...

Chang'e 7 and 8, China aims to construct the International Lunar Research Station at the lunar south pole from 2031, collaborating with Roscosmos and 11...

Korean Lunar Exploration Program (Korean: 대한민국의 달탐사 계획) is led by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), which develops lunar orbiters and landers...

Bjerknes is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the rugged far side of the Moon. The crater lies behind the southeastern...

Lunar Bird is an abstract bronze sculpture by Joan Miró. It was modeled in 1945, enlarged in 1966, and cast in 1967. It is in the Hirshhorn Museum and...

the mission's completion and returning lunar samples to Earth. All lunar missions had taken place on the lunar near side until the first soft landing...

Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the...

The Lunar Cruiser is the nickname of a crewed pressurized lunar rover being developed jointly by JAXA and Toyota that astronauts can drive and live in...

traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days...

Lunar basalt 70017 is a Moon rock gathered in 1972 by astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on the Apollo 17 mission near their Apollo Lunar Module...

This is a list of named lunar craters, which are a small proportion of the overall crater population. Most of these features are impact craters; only...

The Lunar Surface Gravimeter (LSG) was a lunar science experiment that was deployed on the surface of the Moon by the astronauts of Apollo 17 on December...

building a solar power satellite from lunar materials. Some proposed techniques include the lunar mass driver and the lunar space elevator, first described...

A lunar lander is a space vehicle designed to land on the Moon. Lunar Lander may also refer to: Apollo Lunar Module (LM or LEM), the lander used in the...

Shoemaker is a lunar impact crater located near the southern pole of the Moon, within half a crater diameter of Shackleton. It lies to the south of the...

A lunar dome is a type of shield volcano that is found on the surface of the Earth's Moon. They are typically formed by highly viscous, possibly silica-rich...

are near the lunar south pole where they will scout for lunar resources, test in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts, and perform lunar science to...

The theory that Allah (God in Islam) originated as a lunar deity began in 1901 with the archaeologist Hugo Winckler. He associated Allah with a pre-Islamic...

The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NG-LLC) was a competition funded by NASA's Centennial Challenges program. The competition offered a series...

Lunar Eclipse is a 1999 Chinese film and the directorial debut from Sixth Generation director Wang Quan'an. It is also the feature film debut of Wang's...

billion rubles (USD ~$6 billion). It is the main rocket of the Russian lunar exploration program. The final design for the rocket was expected to be...

staging area for future lunar missions. In contrast with low lunar orbit which NASA characterizes as being deep in the lunar gravity well, NRHO is described...

of the Moon because of their contrasting appearance from the surrounding lunar highlands, which are made up of anorthosite, an igneous rock containing...

During the 21st century, there will be 228 lunar eclipses of which 86 will be penumbral, 57 will be partial and 85 will be total. Of the total eclipses...

the northern hemisphere of Earth, the lunar terminator appears to move from right to left (lunar east to lunar west), with the reverse being true for...

Kepler is a lunar impact crater that lies between the Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Insularum in the east. To the southeast is the crater Encke...

The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of...

series 121 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's descending node. It began in 1029 and will end in 2526. It contains 84 member lunar eclipses, each...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1971: 10 February 1971 lunar eclipse 6 August 1971 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

was created by a lunar lava tube, and is currently the deepest known lunar pit with a radius of at least 100 meters (328 feet). The lunar feature is notable...

Peregrine Lunar Lander flight 01, commonly referred to as Peregrine Mission One, was a failed American lunar lander mission. The lander, dubbed Peregrine...

astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 which, after a critical failure en route, looped around...

the Luna-Glob lander, was a failed Russian lunar lander mission operated by Roscosmos. It was the first lunar mission undertaken by Russia since the Soviet-era...

Lunar Jetman is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game. It was released for the ZX Spectrum in 1983 and later...

The Altair spacecraft, previously known as the Lunar Surface Access Module or LSAM, was the planned lander spacecraft component of NASA's cancelled Constellation...

The lunar geological timescale (or selenological timescale) divides the history of Earth's Moon into five generally recognized periods: the Copernican...

The Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX) (also called Chandrayaan-5) is a planned joint lunar mission by ISRO and JAXA. The mission would send an uncrewed...

Soviet lunar exploration program may refer to: Soviet crewed lunar programs Luna programme Lunokhod programme Zond program This disambiguation page lists...

Barringer is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the Far side of the Moon. It is attached to the north-northeastern rim...

bolsters India's ambition to establish and run the BAS and accomplish a crewed lunar landing by 2040. The NGLV has been approved for ₹8,240 crore (US$860 million)...

represents the lunar phase of new moon in the Hindu calendar. A calendar month ends on amavasya as per the amanta tradition of the Hindu lunar calendar. Various...

Lunar horizon glow is a phenomenon in which dust particles in the Moon's thin atmosphere create a glow during lunar sunset. The Surveyor program provided...

founded in 2013. Canadensys provides technology support for the International Lunar Observatory ILO-X and ILO-1 space telescopes. With support from the Canadian...

Lunar Crag (71°8′S 68°42′W / 71.133°S 68.700°W / -71.133; -68.700) is one of the rock-exposed summits within the Planet Heights mountain range, rising...

The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed Moon-orbiting missions launched by the United States in 1966 and 1967. Intended to help select...

concentration (mascon), a sub-surface region of higher-density material. "Lamont (lunar crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research...

Coblentz is a small lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, to the south of the much larger crater Bolyai. This crater retains...

astronomical unit and the size of the Solar System. Lunar parallax (often short for lunar horizontal parallax or lunar equatorial horizontal parallax), is a special...

appearance of the dark areas (known as lunar maria) and the lighter-colored highlands (and some lowlands) of the lunar surface. There are various explanations...

Saros cycle series 112 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's ascending node, 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 72 events, with 15 total eclipses...

authenticity. The radiation detectors and magnetometer were searching for lunar magnetic and radiation fields similar to the Van Allen radiation belt around...

Shackleton is an impact crater that lies at the lunar south pole. The peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, while the...

15 was a robotic space mission of the Soviet Luna programme that was in lunar orbit at the same time as the Apollo 11 spacecraft. On 21 July 1969, while...

Antoniadi is a large lunar impact crater that lies on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. The crater intrudes into the southeastern rim...

Lunar Trailblazer was a small (class D) lunar orbiter, part of NASA's SIMPLEx program, with a mission to detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine...

The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) is a research center for planetary science located in Tucson, Arizona. It is also a graduate school, constituting...

A grazing lunar occultation (also lunar grazing occultation, lunar graze, or just graze) is a lunar occultation in which as the occulted star disappears...

10:22 p.m. PST (UTC-8) at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, after an all-day Lunar New Year Festival was held on a nearby street. Shortly afterwards, the gunman...

Lunar Leeper, also released as Lunar Leepers, is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Chuck Bueche for the Apple II. It was published under Sierra...

Lunar Rescue is an arcade video game released by Taito in November 1979. The gameplay has some resemblance to both Taito's own 1978 hit Space Invaders...

1973. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle approximately 550 meters west of West crater on July 20...

Lunar Mission One was a proposed international, crowdfunded, robotic mission to the Moon, led by Lunar Missions Limited in England. They did not obtain...

is one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, having served as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13. He was to have been the sixth person to walk...

(CMP), and Collins as lunar module pilot (LMP). Along with learning the new Apollo command and service module (CSM) and the Apollo Lunar Module (LM), Collins...

to add a leap (lunar) month, so as to keep its calendar year from drifting through the seasons. Pure lunar calendars, such as the lunar Hijri calendar...

landing in the crater highly reflective rocks confused the spacecraft's lunar descent radar. The engines failed to cut off at 14 feet (4.3 meters) in...

Saturn V Apollo CSM, two Space Shuttle) and from the Moon once (Apollo Lunar Module Ascent Stage) (1965–1983) Jerry L. Ross (USA), Space Shuttle (1985–2002)...

cycle series 129 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's descending node, repeats every 18 years ⁠11+1/3⁠ days. The 129th lunar saros is associated with...

partial lunar eclipses and 12 total lunar eclipses, starting in 2015 and ending in 2213). List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses...

not counting remakes, rereleases and spin-offs. Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was originally only released in Japan. While a European release...

Lunokhod program, one by the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and one by the Chandrayaan program. Lunar reflectors have enabled precise measurement...

Charlier is a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the Moon. To its south-southeast lies the larger crater Kovalevskaya, while Perrine is situated...

Clark is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern hemisphere of the Moon's far side. It is located midway between the larger walled plain Van der...

Huggins is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon's near side. It was named after British astronomer Sir William...

The LEK Lunar Expeditionary Complex was a lunar expedition and Moon base proposed by Valentin Glushko in 1974 as a Soviet response to the United States'...

the Lunar Atmosphere above Swirls (BOLAS) is a spacecraft mission concept that would orbit the Moon at very low altitude in order to study the lunar surface...

Halley is a lunar impact crater that is intruding into the southern wall of the walled plain Hipparchus. Its diameter is 35 km. The crater is named after...

 'Ocean of Storms') is a vast lunar plain on the western edge of the near side of the Moon. It is the only one of the lunar plains to be called an "Oceanus"...

lunar soil. The last successful communications session with Lunokhod 1 was on September 14, 1971, having operated for 11 months. NASA included Lunar Roving...

Brashear is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, in the southern hemisphere in the vicinity of the south pole. It lies just to the south...

Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is a 2008 survival horror video game developed by Tecmo, Nintendo SPD and Grasshopper Manufacture and published...

record of five days. Eight days was the time required for the first crewed lunar landing missions. Conrad facetiously referred to the Gemini 5 capsule as...

before 3000). This lunar saros is linked to Solar Saros 162. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 155...

The Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment (LSPE) was a lunar science experiment, deployed by astronauts on the lunar surface in 1972 as part of Apollo 17...

The Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container (ALSRC), colloquially referred to as the "rock box," was a specially designed aluminum container used during...

Campbell is a large lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the walled...

Bianchini is a lunar impact crater that lies along the northern Jura Mountains that ring the Sinus Iridum, in the northwestern part of the near side of...

detect gravity anomalies. Most low lunar orbits are unstable. Detailed data collected has shown that for low lunar orbit the only "stable" orbits are...

000 kg to trans-lunar injection. Its first flight is planned for 2033, in anticipation of an increase in cadence by China's crewed lunar missions during...

Lunar Module Antares. He was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to walk on the Moon. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar...

51°22′42″N 0°5′54″W / 51.37833°N 0.09833°W / 51.37833; -0.09833 Lunar House is a now vacant 20-storey office block in Croydon, in South London. It...

series 135 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's descending node, repeats every 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 71 events. This lunar saros is linked...

appearing as shining "diamonds" set in a bright ring around the lunar silhouette. Lunar topography has considerable relief because of the presence of mountains...

The International Lunar Network or ILN was a proposed network of lunar surface stations to be built by the United States and the other space-faring countries...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1953: 29 January 1953 lunar eclipse 26 July 1953 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1964: 25 June 1964 lunar eclipse 19 December 1964 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

including mountains and valleys, craters, and plains, amongst others. Lunar maria (singular mare) are large, dark, regions of the Moon. They do not...

sample of lunar soil to Earth. The 101 grams (3.56 ounces) sample was returned from Mare Fecunditatis. It represented the first successful lunar sample return...

Луна-Глоб, meaning Lunar sphere) is a Moon exploration program by Roscosmos meant to progress toward the creation of a fully robotic lunar base. When completed...

through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the first book in The Lunar Chronicles and is followed by Scarlet. The story is loosely based on the...

Two lunar eclipses occurred in 1954: 19 January 1954 total lunar eclipse 16 July 1954 partial lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1993: 4 June 1993 lunar eclipse 29 November 1993 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

partial lunar eclipses occurred in 1952: 11 February 1952 lunar eclipse 5 August 1952 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

Lunar Orbiter 4 was a robotic U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed...

designed before the lunar orbit rendezvous landing strategy was chosen; therefore it lacked the capability of docking with the lunar module. This was incorporated...

a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. He was the eighth person to walk on the...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1968: 13 April 1968 lunar eclipse 6 October 1968 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

astronaut in outer space outside of a spacecraft. This includes spacewalks, lunar or planetary surface exploration (commonly known as moonwalks), and stand-up...

forward looking 10 year lunar architecture proposals. Aimed at creating the beginning stages of a lunar economy the DARPA lunar programs is participated...

Swift is a small lunar impact crater located in the northwestern part of the Mare Crisium, in the northeast part of the Moon's near side. Within two crater...

The lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back by the astronauts of the Apollo 11...

Lunar Poetry is the third demo by Ukrainian black metal band Nokturnal Mortum. It was released on cassette tape in April 1996 through Morbid Noizz and...

The Thai lunar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ, RTGS: patithin chanthrakhati, pronounced [pà.tì.tʰīn t͡ɕān.tʰrá(ʔ).kʰā.tìʔ], literally, Specific days according...

Smith is a lunar impact crater that is located within the huge walled plain Apollo, on the far side of the Moon. This crater is attached to the west-southwestern...

total lunar eclipses occurred in 1975: 25 May 1975 lunar eclipse 18 November 1975 lunar eclipse List of 20th-century lunar eclipses Lists of lunar eclipses...

Base. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle approximately 60 meters west of Little West Crater on...

romanized: Ṣafar), also spelt as Safer in Turkish, is the second month of the lunar Islamic calendar. Most of the Islamic months were named according to ancient...

Bouguer is a lunar impact crater that lies along the southern edge of the Mare Frigoris, to the north of the crater Bianchini. To the west-southwest of...

lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, August 28, 2007, with an umbral magnitude of 1.4777. It was a central lunar eclipse...

The lunar north pole is the point in the Northern Hemisphere of the Moon where the lunar axis of rotation meets its surface. The lunar north pole is the...

celestial navigation, lunar distance, also called a lunar, is the angular distance between the Moon and another celestial body. The lunar distances method...

saros is linked to Solar Saros 147. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 140, Fred Espenak www.hermit...

The lunar occultation of Venus refers to a natural phenomenon in which the Moon passes in front of Venus, obstructing it from view on some regions of...

Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur. It is also working on the Blue Moon human lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program, the Blue Ring spacecraft platform, and...

Orientale (/ˌɔːriənˈteɪli/; from Latin mare orientāle 'eastern sea') is a lunar mare. It is located on the western border of the near side and far side...

lunar day". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2018-08-17. Retrieved 2007-04-07. Do not confuse with the astronomical lunar day on the Moon. A lunar...

Cassini is a lunar impact crater that is located in the Palus Nebularum, at the eastern end of Mare Imbrium. Webb described it as, "a curious ring-plain;...

of four total lunar eclipses within two consecutive years. The frequency of tetrads varies by century with the frequency of total lunar eclipses. This...

The Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEAM) was a lunar science experiment that flew to the Moon on board Apollo 17 in 1972. It collected information...

Lunar Rescue is a horizontally scrolling shooter with elements of Lunar Lander and Gravitar. It was developed by Practical Computer Applications and released...

saros is linked to Solar Saros 126. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 119, Fred Espenak www.hermit...

Byrd is an irregular lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon. The north rim of Byrd is nearly connected to the crater Peary...

Ptolemaeus is an ancient lunar impact crater close to the center of the near side, named for Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman writer, mathematician,...

missions that featured both increased scientific capability and the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, landed in an area of the Hadley–Apennine region to the west...

The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) was a facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (Building 37) that was constructed to quarantine astronauts...

Hipparchus is the degraded remnant of a lunar impact crater. It was named after the Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician Hipparchus. It is located...

A central lunar eclipse is a lunar eclipse in which part of the Moon passes through the center of Earth's shadow. This type of lunar eclipse typically...

In Hinduism, each lunar phase has religious and astrological significance. There are four principal (primary, or major) lunar phases: the new moon, first...

Arrhenius is a lunar impact crater that is located just on the far side of the Moon, near the southwest limb. In this location the vicinity of the crater...

Energia Lunar Expedition was a project that was proposed by Soviet engineer Valentin Glushko in 1988 which would’ve aimed to create a lunar base using...

European Lunar Exploration Association (Euroluna) is a Danish-Italian-Swiss team led by Palle Haastrup, which is participating in the Google Lunar X Prize...

the lunar surface can be used to support lunar surface operations as well as satellites off the lunar surface. Solar arrays produced on the lunar surface...

cycle series 130 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's ascending node, repeats every 18 years ⁠11+1/3⁠ days. The 130th lunar saros is associated with...

1963, Scott flew to space three times and commanded Apollo 15, the fourth lunar landing; he is one of four surviving Moon walkers and the only living commander...

The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the...

The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...

saros is linked to Solar Saros 153. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 146, Fred Espenak www.hermit...

Von Kármán is a large lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. The crater is about 186 km (116 mi)...

usage among lunar scientists is to ignore that distinction.[citation needed] "Lunar dust" generally connotes even finer materials than lunar soil, the fraction...

Moon. Here, he and Gene Cernan became the first to fly an Apollo Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending to an altitude of nine miles (fourteen kilometres)...

arguments that it must be hollow like a bell. Lunar seismology experiments since then have shown that the lunar body has shallow moonquakes that act differently...

verified in body] The term occultation is most frequently used to describe lunar occultations, those relatively frequent occasions when the Moon passes in...

Perepelkin is a lunar impact crater that is located just to the south of the similar crater Love. Attached to the exterior of its southern rim is the...

Baldet is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the basalt-covered region between the...

The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE; /ˈlædi/) was a NASA lunar exploration and technology demonstration mission. It was launched...

Armstrong's descent down the ladder and approximately 86 minutes of the lunar EVA, as well as Hasselblad 70mm still cameras. To broadcast the SSTV transmission...

Babylonian lunar cycle include reconciling the differences between an unbroken week and a lunar week, and explaining the absence of texts naming the lunar week...

Simulator, or Lunar Landing Walking Simulator, was a facility developed by NASA in the early 1960s to study human locomotion under simulated lunar gravity conditions...

The Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO) is the layer of molten rock that is theorized to have been present on the surface of the Moon. The LMO was likely present...

descending (i.e. 'south') lunar node in Vedic, or Hindu astrology. Personified as a deity, Rāhu (, the ascending (i.e. 'north') lunar node) and Ketu are considered...

Intuitive Machines (IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar surface on February 22 the lander tipped to an unplanned...

Chamberlin is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just past the southeastern limb. It lies to the southeast of the crater...

The Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) was a 2007–2018 inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge...

to separate gold and silver by dissolving the silver. It was once called lunar caustic because silver was called luna by ancient alchemists who associated...

in the highland region near the southeastern lunar limb. It dates to the Pre-Nectarian period of the lunar geologic timescale. The entire structure has...

contains 70 events (62 listed before 3000). List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 147, Fred Espenak www.hermit...

descent propulsion system (DPS — pronounced 'dips'[pronunciation?]) or lunar module descent engine (LMDE), internal designation VTR-10, is a variable-throttle...

go approximately 100 kilometers (60 mi) further from the lunar far side than other Apollo lunar missions, but this was a minor contribution to the record...

The Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP) is a NASA program that uses robotic spacecraft to prepare for future crewed missions to the Moon. The program...

romanized: pakṣa) refers to a fortnight period consisting of various lunar phases in a month of the Hindu lunar calendar. Literally meaning "side" in Sanskrit, it refers...

Lunar Orbiter 5, the last of the "Lunar Orbiter series", was designed to take additional Apollo and Surveyor landing site photography and to take broad...

A lunar cycler or Earth–Moon cycler is a cycler orbit, or spacecraft therein, which periodically passes close by the Earth and the Moon, using gravity...

linked to Solar Saros 107. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses "NASA - Catalog of Lunar Eclipses in Saros 100". eclipse.gsfc...

Lunar New Year are: Pay off debts before Lunar New Year begins It is widely believed that if people do not settle any debts or grudges before Lunar New...

Lunar Womb is the second studio album by American heavy metal band The Obsessed. It was released in 1991 by Hellhound Records and reissued in 2006 by...

Bok is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. To the southeast is the crater Sniadecki; to the north is McKellar, and further...

spaceflights to go beyond LEO are the lunar missions of the Apollo program from 1968 to 1972 and the Artemis II lunar flyby in 2026. All space stations as...

Spallanzani is a lunar impact crater located in the rugged, crater-marked terrain of the Moon's southern hemisphere. It was named after Italian natural...

LEO) is Mars Plus fins/legs "Artemis III: NASA's First Human Mission to Lunar South Pole - NASA". 2023-01-13. Retrieved 2025-10-22. Does not include crewed...

The Twardowski Lunar Mission is a planned lunar orbiter being built by ESA & Creotech, a Polish company. With the University of Muenster & the Space Research...

The Emirates Lunar Mission (Arabic: مشروع الإمارات لاستكشاف القمر) is the first mission to the Moon from the United Arab Emirates. The mission by Mohammed...

Arago is a lunar impact crater located in the western part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It has a diameter of 26 km and a depth of 2.7 km. To the southwest...

meaning gyrfalcon) is a space suit model developed for lunar excursion during the Soviet crewed lunar program. It was designed by NPP Zvezda. Development...

it was formed during the Pre-Nectarian epoch, with radiometric dating of lunar zircons proposed to originate from the basin suggesting a precise age of...

Graff is a small lunar impact crater that lies along the southwestern limb of the Moon. It is located to the west of the Vallis Bouvard depression in...

Birkeland is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. This crater is attached to the central waist of the...

vehicle") is the second lunar exploration mission developed by ISRO after Chandrayaan-1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, the Vikram lunar lander, and the Pragyan...

saros is linked to Solar Saros 130. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 123, Fred Espenak www.hermit...

Lunar Sway is a Canadian black comedy film, directed by Nick Butler and released in 2026. The film stars Noah Parker as Cliff, a young LGBTQ man living...

saros is linked to Solar Saros 163. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 156, Fred Espenak www.hermit...

first lunar soft-lander in the uncrewed Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States). This lunar soft-lander...

Moon Princess, Lunar Princess, or Princess of the Moon may refer to: Princess Kaguya, the protagonist of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Maria Merryweather...

Porter Porter is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon, and lies across the northeastern rim of the huge walled plain...

Titan who was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the Moon. Analysis of lunar rocks published in a 2016 report suggests that the impact might have been...

First Lunar Outpost was a proposal for a crewed lunar mission that would have launched sometime in the 2010s. It was part of George H. W. Bush's Space...

Saros cycle series 131 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's descending node, repeats every 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 72 member events,...

to sample the lunar soil and determine the thickness of the dust layer, which was unknown before Surveyor. The U.S.-crewed Apollo Lunar Modules (1969–1972)...

Throughout most of literary history, a significant portion of works depicting lunar voyages has been satirical in nature. From the late 19th century onwards...

brand Maybelline. In 2018, he founded his own cosmetics company called Lunar Beauty and launched his own cosmetic products. Gutierrez told Teen Vogue...

saros series. This lunar saros is linked to Solar Saros 143. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 136...

by two principal calendars: the lunar Hijri calendar (known in the West as the "Islamic calendar") which counts lunar years since the Hijrah and which...

Flammarion is a lunar impact crater on the south edge of Sinus Medii. Its diameter is 76 km. It is named after the French astronomer Camille Flammarion...

Curie is a large lunar impact crater, much of which lies on the far side of the Moon as seen from the Earth. The western rim projects into the near side...

This is a list of lunar meteorites. That is, meteorites that have been identified as having originated from Earth's Moon. Where multiple meteorites are...

represents the lunar phase of full moon in the Hindu calendar. A calendar month ends on purnima as per the purnimanta tradition of the Hindu lunar calendar...

Haldane is a lunar impact crater that is located in Mare Smythii, near the eastern limb of the Moon. The visibility of this formation is affected by libration...

Charged Particle Lunar Environment Experiment (CPLEE), placed on the lunar surface by the Apollo 14 mission as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments...

better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya (かぐや), was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe. Produced by the Institute...

called DLB Lunar Base, was a Soviet plan and project from 1962 to 1974 to construct a crewed moonbase as successor to the N1-L3 human lunar expedition...

had specialised in lunar rills. In 1847 he discovered six lunar rilles and continued to make lunar drawings all his life. The lunar crater Kinau is named...

its precessional orbit around the Earth, also referred to as the north lunar node, and along with Ketu, is a "shadow planet" that causes eclipses. Despite...

A total lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, June 9, 2123, with an umbral magnitude of 1.7488. It will be a central...

programs gaining traction are Moon-focused: the Chinese-led International Lunar Research Station and the U.S.-led Artemis Program, with its plan to build...

A moonbow (also known as a moon rainbow or lunar rainbow) is a rainbow produced by moonlight rather than direct sunlight. Other than the difference in...

Lambert is a lunar impact crater on the southern half of the Mare Imbrium basin. It was named after Swiss polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert. It lies to...

Schröter is a lunar impact crater near the mid-part of the Moon, on the eastern Mare Insularum. It was named by the IAU in 1935 after German astronomer...

Fesenkov is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the east-southeast of the prominent crater Tsiolkovskiy, and less than...

done next once it was achieved. While Apollo did not usher in an era of lunar exploration, it sent six more crewed missions to the Moon, ending with Apollo...

Secchi is a small lunar impact crater formation on the northwest edge of Mare Fecunditatis. It was named after the 19th-century Italian astronomer Angelo...

Wegener is a lunar impact crater that is located in the Moon's northern hemisphere, about midway between the equator and the north pole. It lies on the...

provide enough infrastructure to create a small lunar base. No flight hardware was built. The Lunar transfer Vehicle concept consisted of a single Spacehab...

could include the location of the Sun and Moon in the sky, the age and Lunar phases, the position of the Sun on the ecliptic and the current zodiac sign...

China began minting coins to commemorate the Chinese New Year. The Chinese lunar series consist of gold, silver and platinum coins, in a variety of sizes...

British selenographer and one of the preeminent lunar observers of the Victorian age, best known for his lunar map, which was regarded as one of the best available...

The 2011 lunar eclipse may refer to: June 2011 lunar eclipse December 2011 lunar eclipse This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

Lyot is a large lunar impact crater that is located along the southeastern limb of the Moon. It lies within the irregular and patchy lunar mare named Mare...

as Mechta (Russian: Мечта [mʲɪt͡ɕˈta], lit.: Dream), E-1 No.4 and First Lunar Rover, was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of Earth's Moon, the...

responsibility for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, along with the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative developing the VIPER rover and Lunar Trailblazer...

/træŋˌkwɪlɪˈteɪtɪs/ (Latin for Sea of Tranquillity or Sea of Tranquility) is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. It contains...

land on the Moon. He spent over seven hours walking on the Moon during two lunar excursions. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab...

142 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's ascending node, 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 73 events (72 before 3000). List of lunar eclipses...

Hartwig is a lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon. It is attached to the eastern rim of the prominent crater Schlüter...

crewed Moon landing, using a similar lunar orbit rendezvous method. The rocket had three stages, carrying the L3 lunar payload into low Earth orbit with...

Fernando José Lunar [loo-NAR] (born May 25, 1977), is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Atlanta Braves (2000) and Baltimore Orioles...

Vesak is derived from the Pali term vesākha or Sanskrit vaiśākha for the lunar month of Vaisakha, which is considered the month of Buddha's birth. In Mahayana...

Herschel is a lunar impact crater located just to the north of the walled plain Ptolemaeus. Its diameter is 39 km. It was named after German-born British...

including the Christmas Eve Genesis reading. During one of the mission's lunar orbits, he took the iconic Earthrise photograph. A 1955 graduate of the...

its orbit—resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as viewed from Earth.‍ The technical name is a perigee syzygy (of the...

Crommelin is an ancient lunar impact crater that is located in the vicinity of the south pole of the Moon, on the far side. It lies to the north of the...

engineer. Kelly primarily worked on the Apollo Lunar Module, which earned him the name of "Father of the Lunar Module" from NASA.[citation needed] Kelly graduated...

A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, September 7, 2025, with an umbral magnitude of 1.3638. A lunar eclipse...

days are based on the lunar phases called tithis, thus the festivals based on the lunar calendar fluctuate. The first half of a lunar month is called the...

LEO, 4.1 and 3.8 for LEO to lunar orbit (or L5) and GEO resp., 0.7 for L5 to lunar orbit, and 2.2 for lunar orbit to lunar surface. Figures are said to...

heresy. He is best known for an account of a journey of lunar discovery, Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures, which is credited as the first science fiction...

Administration (NASA) during the Apollo program. The camera designed to survey the lunar surface was a modification of the GAMBIT design and utilized a 1.5-inch...

Main is a lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon. The southern rim of this formation has merged with the larger crater Challis...

lunar impact crater named after the American astronomer George Willis Ritchey. The crater is situated to the east of Albategnius in the central lunar...

originally the NASA Lunar Science Institute, is an organization, established by NASA in 2008, that supplemented and extended existing NASA lunar science programs...

During the 20th century, there were 229 lunar eclipses of which 83 were penumbral, 65 were partial and 81 were total. Of the total eclipses, 33 were central...

A total lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, June 26, 2029, with an umbral magnitude of 1.8452. It will be a central...

[page range too broad] The suits used during lunar EVAs had a weight of about 81.6 kg (180 lb), and under lunar surface gravity a weight equivalent to 13...

Schmidt is a small lunar impact crater that is located near the southwest edge of Mare Tranquillitatis, to the southwest of the Ritter–Sabine crater pair...

Aryabhata, named after Indian astronomer Aryabhata, is the remnant of a lunar impact crater located in the eastern Mare Tranquillitatis. The crater has...

resynchronise with the seasons. Pure lunar calendars ignore the solar cycle and instead have an invariant year of twelve lunar months that drifts through the...

The International Lunar Resources Exploration Concept (ILREC) was a proposed mission architecture under President George H. W. Bush's Space Exploration...

Pettit is a lunar impact crater that lies near the western limb of the Moon. It was named after American astronomer Edison Pettit. In this location the...

Gregory is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the southeast of the crater Ibn Firnas, and north-northeast of Bečvář....

adopted by the IAU in 1970. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest...

(July 15–17, 2019). "Common Pool Lunar Resources" (PDF). Lunar ISRU 2019: Developing a New Space Economy Through Lunar Resources and Their Utilization...

Cahill, J. T. S.; et al. (September 2009). "Compositional variations of the lunar crust: Results from radiative transfer modeling of central peak spectra"...

Lunar Prelude is the first EP by the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain. It was released on 19 February 2016. This is the first album with Ruben Israel...

partial lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Friday, August 28, 2026, with an umbral magnitude of 0.9319. A lunar eclipse...

"Lunar" is an instrumental by French disc jockey and record producer David Guetta in collaboration with Dutch music producer and DJ Afrojack, from Guetta's...

ending in 2003. This lunar saros is linked to Solar Saros 133. List of lunar eclipses List of Saros series for lunar eclipses Lunar Eclipses of Saros 126...

private Japanese uncrewed lunar landing mission built and operated by ispace, which was launched in December 2022 for an attempted lunar landing in April 2023...

This is a list of Lunar lava tubes and their entrances. The first atlas of lunar pits was published in 2021, and a number of catalogues have been published...

Audi Lunar Quattro (ALQ) is type of small lunar rover created by a team of engineers from Germany, PTScientists, with the support of Audi and a number...

1968), also known as AS-204, was the uncrewed first flight of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) that would later carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon...

to the Hindu calendar, The festival is observed on the chaturdashi (14th lunar day) of krishna paksha (waning moon) of the month of Magha or Phalguna....

Wright is a lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon. It lies on the irregular plain between the Montes Cordillera and Montes...

20°00′N 31°00′E / 20.0°N 31.0°E / 20.0; 31.0 Taurus–Littrow is a lunar valley located on the near side at the coordinates 20°00′N 31°00′E / 20.0°N...

of various missions, including crewed low Earth orbit, circumlunar and lunar landing missions. Gemini was the second crewed spaceflight program operated...

2014 lunar eclipse may refer to: April 2014 lunar eclipse October 2014 lunar eclipse This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Saturday, April 4, 2015, with an umbral magnitude of 1.0019. A lunar eclipse occurs...

The Moonlight programme or the Moonlight Lunar Communications and Navigation Services (LCNS) is an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) with...

He also appears in the final episode, reporting on the final Apollo 17 lunar mission, and is himself an interview subject in a mock documentary. The...

Sesia bembeciformis, the lunar hornet moth, is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is found in Europe. The wingspan is 32–42 mm. The length of the forewings...

Fontana is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southwestern part of the Moon's near side, to the south of the Oceanus Procellarum. It lies to...

Lunar fluorescence is the process where minerals along the surface of the Moon, like the silicate minerals plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and olivine...

Vogel is a small lunar impact crater located to the southeast of Albategnius. It was named after the German astronomer Hermann Carl Vogel. It is the smallest...

Pasteur is a large lunar impact crater, approximately 233 kilometers in diameter, belonging to the category termed a walled plain. It was named after...