The Value of the Moon

by Paul D. Spudis

  Mars Climate Orbiter mission

  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission

  Mars Observer mission, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

  Mars Pathfinder mission, 4.1, 4.2

  Mars Polar Lander mission

  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

  mass driver

  massifs

  McAuliffe, Christa

  Mendell, Wendell

  Mercury, 2.1, 3.1; poles of, 3.2

  Mercury program

  Meteor Crater, Arizona, 1.1, 2.1

  methane, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1

  microgravity, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1

  middle Earth orbit (MEO), 7.1, 8.1

  minerals, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2; ilmenite, 9.3; maskelynite, 2.2; olivine, 3.4; plagioclase, 2.3, 3.5; pyroxene, 3.6; quartz, 2.4

  Mini-RF (Mini-SAR) experiment, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1

  Mir (Soviet space station)

  month

  Moon: accessibility of, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2; as a space station, 1.2; atmosphere of, 1.3, 6.3, 9.1; composition of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.4, 6.5, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4; core, 1.4, 6.6; crust of, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.2, 6.7, 6.8; distance from Earth, 1.8, 6.9; environment, 1.9, 1.10, 2.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.3, 5.1, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 7.1, 7.2, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7; exit strategy, 6.13, 7.3; GPS system and, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 8.2; libration points of, 5.2, 7.6, 9.8; magma ocean on, 1.11, 3.6; mantle of, 1.12, 2.4, 3.7, 6.14; mythology of, 1.13; permanent shadow, 1.14, 3.8, 3.9, 4.4, 6.15, 7.7; permanent sunlight, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 3.10, 3.11, 4.5, 4.6, 5.3, 6.16, 6.17, 7.8, 7.9, 8.3, 8.4, 9.9, 10.1; phases of, 1.18; poles of, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 6.18, 6.19, 6.20, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 8.5, 8.6, 9.10, 9.11, 10.2; proximity, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.26, 4.11, 5.9, 6.21, 6.22, 6.23, 7.14, 7.15, 10.3; regolith 2.5, 3.15, 4.12, 6.24, 6.25, 6.26, 6.27, 6.28, 7.16, 7.17, 9.12, 9.13; return to, 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, 2.6, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 5.16, 6.29, 7.18, 7.19, 8.7, 8.8, 9.14, 9.15, 10.4, 10.5; roads on, 6.30, 7.20, 7.21, 9.16; seismicity, 6.31; stratigraphy of, 2.7; witness plate (recorder), 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 2.8, 2.9, 6.32, 6.33, 7.22, 9.17

  Moon Express Inc.

  Moon Impact Probe (MIP)

  Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) experiment, 5.1, 9.1

  Moran, Jim

  Nansen Crater

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): abolition of, 10.1; Ames Research Center, 5.1; Apollo program, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1; budget of, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 7.1, 10.2, 10.3; Decadal Planning Team, 5.6, 5.7; Exploration Strategy Workshop, 5.8, 6.2; Exploration team (NEXT), 5.9; Goddard Space Flight Center, 3.3, 5.10; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 3.4, 4.4, 5.11, 5.12; Johnson Space Center, 2.4, 3.5, 4.5; Kennedy Space Center, 5.13; Marshall Space Flight Center, 5.14, 7.2; Public Affairs, 8.1

  National Air and Space Museum, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1

  National Commission on Space, 3.1, 4.1

  National Security Council (NSC)

  Naval Research Laboratory, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

  near-Earth asteroids (human missions to), 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission

  near side of Moon, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1

  NEO (see near-Earth asteroids)

  New Space, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2

  Newton, Sir Isaac

  Nixon, President Richard

  North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)

  Nozette, Stewart, 3.1, 3.2

  nuclear reactors, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1

  Obama, President Barack, 5.1, 5.2

  Oberth, Hermann

  obliquity, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1

  Ockels, Wubbo

  Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

  Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

  O’Keefe, Sean, 4.1, 5.1, nts.1

  orbits, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1; distant retrograde (ARM) 5.3; elliptical, 1.6, 6.6; geosynchronous 1.7, 3.6, 6.7, 7.6, 8.3, 8.4; low Earth (LEO) 3.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 7.7, 7.8, 8.5, 10.2; low lunar (LLO) 6.11, 6.12, 7.9, 9.4; middle-Earth orbit (MEO), 7.10, 8.6; phasing, 3.8; polar, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 4.2, 7.11; propellant depots, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16, 9.5; servicing, 8.7

  Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV), 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

  ore deposit

  Orion spacecraft, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1

  Outer Space Treaty (United Nations)

  oxygen production, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

  Paine, Thomas, 3.1, 4.1

  paleoregolith

  Panama Canal

  Pantheon (Rome)

  peak, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 10.1; central, 3.4, 6.2; of eternal light, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 10.2

  plagioclase, 2.1, 3.1

  plains, 1.1, 6.1, 9.1

  Planetary Society 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  poles (see Moon, poles of)

  power stations, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1

  propellant, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1; boil-off, 6.6, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 9.2; depots, 2.2, 3.1, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 8.4, 9.3, 9.4

  prospecting, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

  public opinion, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2

  pyroxene

  quartz

  Quest for Life, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

  radio astronomy, 4.1, 6.1

  radioactivity, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1

  radioisotope thermal generator (RTG)

  Ranger program

  Reagan, President Ronald, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1

  Readdy, William, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  regenerative fuel cell (RFC)

  rendezvous, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

  Ride, Sally

  Ride report, 3.1, 4.1

  robotic teleoperations (see teleoperation)

  rocks, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2

  rocket, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1; Ares, 5.4, 5.5, 7.4; Atlas launcher, 7.5; combustion, 7.6; equation, 2.5, 2.6, 3.5, 7.7, 7.8; Falcon 9 launcher, 7.9; Falcon Heavy launcher, 7.10; N-1, 2.7; Nova, 2.8; nuclear, 4.2; Saturn V, 2.9, 2.10, 4.3; Shuttle side-mount, 5.6; solid rocket motors, 3.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 7.11; Space Launch System (SLS), 6.2, 7.12; Titan II, 3.7

  Rogers, William

  rovers, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Rümker K crater

  Rustan, Pedro

  Sagan, Carl, 4.1, 9.1

  samples, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1

  Schmitt, Harrison H. (Jack), 2.1, 10.1

  Scolese, Chris

  Scott, David

  seismic activity

  SELENE mission

  Shackleton Crater, 1.1, 4.1

  SHAR (India launch site)

  Shepard, Alan

  shock melting

  Shoemaker, Eugene, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1

  sinuous rilles

  Skylab (space station), 3.1, 3.2

  Slayton, Deke

  SMART-1 mission, 3.1, 4.1

  soil, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4; as shielding, 6.3; composition, 3.2, 9.5; melting, 6.4, 9.6

  Sojourner rover

  solar: eclipse, 1.1; electric propulsion, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1; flares, 6.2; nitrogen isotopes, 6.3; power, 1.2, 3.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1; thermal heating, 2.1, 6.4, 7.4, 9.3, 9.4; wind, 2.2, 4.2, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 9.5, 9.6

  Solar Max satellite

  Solar Power Satellite (SPS)

  Sorensen, Trevor

  south pole (see Moon, poles of)

  South Pole–Aitken Basin, 3.1, 3.2

  space: difficulty of reaching, 9.1, 10.1; inspiration from, 2.1, 8.1; international cooperation on, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.2, 10.2

  Spa
ce Act (1958)

  Space Council (White House), 3.1, 5.1

  Space Exploration Initiative (SEI), 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1

  space race, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  Space Shuttle Program, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 10.1; costs of, 1.2, 4.4, 7.4, 8.5; imaging radar (SIR), 8.6

  Space Station Freedom, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1

  Space Task Group (Nixon White House)

  Space Transportation System (STS), 3.1, 3.2

  spectra, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1

  Sputnik mission, 1.1, 2.1

  Stafford, Tom, 3.1, 3.2

  Stanley, Doug

  Steidle, Craig, 5.1, 5.2

  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 2.1, 3.1, 8.1

  sunlight at south pole (see Moon, poles of)

  superposition

  Surveyor 3 mission

  Surveyor program, 1.1, 2.1

  sustainability, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1

  Synthesis Group, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1

  Taurus-Littrow

  tectonism

  teleoperation, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1

  terrae (highlands), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  thorium, 6.1, 9.1

  tides

  titanium

  Total Quality management (TQM)

  Toutatis (asteroid)

  transcontinental railroad, 1.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

  tritium

  Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 1.1, 2.1, 7.1

  Tycho Crater

  tyranny of the rocket equation, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Tyson, Neil deGrasse

  Urey, Harold, 2.1

  vacuum induction furnace

  Valles Marineris

  van Allen radiation belts

  Verne, Jules

  Viking mission, 4.1, 4.2

  Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1; cost of, 5.6

  volcanism, 1.1, 6.1, 9.1

  von Braun, Wernher, 2.1, 3.1

  Walker, Bob, 5.1

  water on the Moon, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1; value for spaceflight, 5.5, 6.5, 6.6, 9.4, 9.5, 10.2

  Weiler, Edward

  Weitz, Paul

  Wells, H. G.

  Wilkins, John

  X-ray tomography

  Young, John, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2

  zero-g (see microgravity)

  Zimmer, Bob

  Zond 8 mission

  Zuber, Maria

  Zubrin, Robert, 4.1, 4.2