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... TOMORROW THE MOON''' by Marcus, A. and R. B. Marcus ''Englewood Cliffs (New Jersey), 1959: Prentice-Hall, Inc., ... ;sumé of history and development of rocketry and astronautics for lay readers. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History ...

REDIRECT Man and the Moon

Is a motion picture by the Walt Disney Company, directed by animator Ward Kimball and first aired on American television on December 28 1955. It cost $350,000 to produce and was later retitled Tomorrow the Moon and aired in 1959 as a Disney ''Science Special''. It featured footage of a hypothetical trip to the moon and also starred Wernher von Braun .

... will commence the second half-century of the civil space age, and it could also mark the beginning of a program to create the first city on the Moon and the initiation of the permanent expansion of the World's human civilization beyond the Earth. In commenting upon the opening stage of the new ...

... "The Lunar Dust," "A Volcano on the Moon?," "The Other Side of the Moon—in Theory," "The Other Side of the Moon—in Fact," "The Journey to the Moon," "The Principles of Interplanetary Flight," "Landing on the Moon," "Mining on the Moon," "Power on the Moon," "Lunar Agriculture," and "Building on the Moon ...

... can only have weight in a gravity field, like on the Earth or on the Moon. The Moon is in the gravitational sphere of influence of the Earth (which is why it is in orbit), but it ... that massive. The Moon's density (mass divided by volume) is about 208 pounds per cubic foot, roughly 60 percent of Earth's density. Comparing the mass of the Moon with the mass of the Earth shows how much less massive the Moon is. Remember, a ton is 2,000 pounds. Mass of: pounds Moon 162,000,000,000 ...

... more durable than the current spacesuits. Many sporting events similar to those on Earth will be played on the Moon. However, there will be one big exception. The low gravity on the Moon means individuals will ... kinds of new games can be invented on the Moon. Instead of snowboarding, folks on the Moon might have regoboarding which would involve sliding down the regolith on the sides of craters. It is likely that ...

The Moon actually has three lengths, and its shape is technically known as a triaxial ellipsoid. As you look at the Moon, there is an axis that runs straight through it at the center pointing ... to each other, but very close. The differences in the lengths of these three axes give the Moon a sort of egg shape (but not very much), with the fat end pointing to Earth, and ... maps yet of the Moon to have an exact number for the diameters noted above, but on average the diameter of the Moon is about ~ 2,160 miles. http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (See ...

... the atmosphere with the long (red) wavelengths. Since all the colors are now getting through the atmosphere, to our eyes the Moon appears white. The colors of the Moon as seen from the Earth's surface are also determined by the dust or moisture found in the atmosphere. Dust also absorbs the shorter (blue) wavelengths of light making the Moon ...

... the Moon is either sunlight bouncing off the Moon and into our eyes (the bright part of a crescent Moon), or sunlight bouncing off the Earth, then the Moon and back into our eyes (the dim part of a crescent Moon). Earthlight, the light during the lunar ...

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