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
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