Lunar Missions
This is the NASA program that first put people on the moon.
The Apollo Program
This is the Latin word for the moon
luna
This is the distance between Earth and the Moon
384,400 km
In this year, Artemis I completed an uncrewed test of SLS and Orion, orbiting the Moon.
2022
This 1968 movie had scientists finding a giant monolith buried on the Moon.
2001: A Space Odyssey
All the landings on the moon have occurred between 1961 and 1972. This is the number of times people landed on the moon.
Six
In addition to Greece, Artemis was also worshipped in the Roman world. Her Latin name was Diana, which means this.
Daylight
When this happens, one month will have two full moons; the second one is known as a _______
Blue Moon
Artemis III, is set to be the first manned lunar landing mission in over 50 years. This is where on the moon Artemis III supposed to land.
The South Pole
In 1865 Jules Verne wrote a novel, by what name, that sees the Baltimore Gun Club shooting a capsule with three people to the moon?
From the Earth to the Moon
There is a lunar feature named after the first person to walk on the moon. The Sea of Tranquility. This is what happened in this spot to make it special.
Tranquility Base is the specific spot within Mare Tranquillitatis where Apollo 11 landed.
Telescopium, refers to this device that revolutionized astronomy by enabling distant observations.
Telescope
A large, dark, basaltic plain on the moon, formed from ancient volcanic eruptions that filled the huge impact basins with lava is known as a mare.(Plural Maria) This is the name of the largest mare on the moon.
Mare Imbrium ( Sea of Showers)
At about 1,100 km in diametre the Mare Imbrium is the largest of its kind on the moon.
Artemis IV will deliver a core part of a new lunar space station and land another two astronauts on the Moon's surface. This is currently the planned name for the new lunar space station.
Gateway
This 2019 TV series reimagines history with the Soviet Union landing on the Moon before the United States.
For all Mankind
This is the most recent person to have walked on the moon.
Gene Cernan
If I wanted to say Astronaut, but in Latin, It would sound like this.
Astronauta
Seismic tremors caused by tidal stresses from Earth, impacts or the Moon's cooling core, have this name.
Moonquakes
These Artemis II crew members were announced on April 3, 2023.
Christina Koch, Mission Specialist
Jeremy Hansen, Mission Specialist
Reid Wiseman, Commander
Victor Glover, Pilot
This novel, by Andy Wier, is set and named for the first city on the Moon.
Artemis
This was the name of the the first man made object reached the moon, in 1959.
The Soviet Union's Luna 2 probe
This Latin word reflects the space between stars, and is a focus of modern astrophysics.
Interstellar
Rising at almost 11km above the lunar surface, this is the highest point on the moon.
What is the Selenean Summit
After being launched on the SLS rocket, the four-person crew will fly the Orion module this many km's beyond the Moon, complete a lunar flyby and return to Earth.
8889 km
This 1902 film is the first science fiction film set in space.
A trip to the Moon