The Moon

General Information

• Moon Fact Sheet
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Lunar Data Project
• Reference Books on the Moon
• On-line Books about the Moon

Missions to the Moon

Current and Past Missions

• GRAIL - NASA lunar orbiter mission (2011)
• Chang'e 2 - CNSA lunar orbiter mission (2010)
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter - NASA Lunar Orbiter Mission (2009)
• LCROSS - NASA Lunar Impactor Mission (2009)
• Chandrayaan-1 - ISRO (India) Lunar Orbiter Mission (2008)
• Chang'e 1 - CAST (China) Lunar Orbiter Mission
• Kaguya (SELENE) - JAXA Lunar Orbiter Mission
• SMART 1 - ESA Lunar Orbiter Mission
• Lunar Prospector - NASA Lunar Discovery Mission
• AsiaSat 3/HGS-1 - Commercial Telecommunications Satellite
• Clementine - DoD/NASA Lunar Mapping Mission
• Hiten - ISAS Lunar Flyby and Orbiter
• Galileo - NASA Mission to Jupiter - Lunar Flyby
• Apollo - NASA Lunar Manned Missions
• Lunar Orbiter - NASA Lunar Mapping Missions
• Surveyor - NASA Lunar Lander Missions
• Ranger - NASA Lunar Impact Missions
• Luna and Zond - Soviet Lunar Missions
• Lunar Timeline - Chronology of all Lunar Missions

Future Missions

• LADEE - NASA lunar orbiter dust environment mission (September 2013)
• Moonrise - NASA New Frontiers sample return mission (under study)
• Lunar-A - JAXA (Japan) Lunar Orbiter and Penetrator Mission (Cancelled)

Data

• Lunar Data Project - Restored Apollo Data
• Images of the Moon (Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging)
• Images of the Moon (NSSDC Photo Gallery)
• Clementine Lunar Mosaics on CD-ROM
• Clementine Raw Images on CD-ROM
• Galileo Imaging CD-ROMs
• Lunar Digital Image Model

Lunar Exploration

• Lunar Exploration page
• Lunar Exploration Timeline
• Lunar Landing Site Map
• Apollo 11 (30^th Anniversary)
• Apollo 11 (25^th Anniversary)
• The Apollo 13 accident
• Precise positions of LM's and science experiments on the Moon