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Mission to the Moon

http://www.marcusmoon2022.org/

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MAY 25, 1961

First, I believe that this nation should commit itself

to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of

landing a man on the Moon and returning him

safely to the Earth.

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APOLLO LANDING SITES

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Houston, we've had a problem.

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Moon Rocks

840 pounds (382 kilograms) of

rock and other surface material.

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Apollo 14

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REGOLITH (Greek: "blanket rock")

is a layer of loose,

heterogeneous

material covering solidrock. It includes dust,

soil, broken rock, and

other related materials

and is present on

Earth, the Moon, some

asteroids, and other

planets.

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Lunarregolith, apollo 17

Apollo 17 astronauts found

a soil composed of black

and orangish balls they

named orange soil. Thissoil was created 3.5

billion years ago from

lava spray ejected by

gasses from a volcano.The spray formed liquid

droplets that hardened.

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Impact Breccias - rocks made

from the debris of the many

meteor impacts which have

occurred in the Moon's history.

These rocks form when fragmentsof shattered rock either are

smashed together by the

collision, or melted together bythe heat of collision.

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Lunar Breccia

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Basalt

a hard gray or black,

igneous volcanic rock

that is usually fine-

grained due to rapidcooling of lava,

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Microscopic section of lunar

basalt, Apollo 17

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Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan was the

last man on the Moon. He left a plaque

which read, "Here Man completed his firstexploration of the Moon December 1972 A.D.

May the spirit of peace in which we came be

reflected in the lives of all mankind."