Outside the window of my hillside house, a full moon had set the whitewashed houses aglow and the unearthly light drew me out of my room and down to the coastal walkway for a dreamy ramble.
Unmanned missions will precede that, though -- indeed, a new Moon probe is set to be the first launch from the aforementioned Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Ban Ki-moon has agreed to set up an international scientific advisory board to provide him with guidance on science-related issues, and enable him to provide advice to UN member states on such issues.
"I've been waiting for this day for 31 years, " said Eugene A Cernan, the last astronaut to set foot on the Moon.
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Those were the first words that any human being ever spoke on another world, when Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the Moon in 1969.
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Being the second country to have one of its citizens set foot on the Moon (after the U.S.) would be extremely valuable in terms of publicity and prestige alone.
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NASA, the American space agency, was set up within a year and President John Kennedy took up the challenge that Americans should be the first to set foot on the moon.
Once that flag was planted, America became the first country to set foot on the moon, and we all felt a part of that moment, watching it over and over on YouTube decades later.
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Tom Wolfe argued in a New York Times op-ed a couple of days ago that the space program died at the moment Armstrong set foot on the moon that the poetic trajectory of space exploration flattened at that moment, and NASA was never able to recover.
Last Wednesday, the Moon to Mars Commission set up by Mr Bush in January to look at how to achieve his vision of a return of astronauts to the moon followed by human exploration of Mars said in its report that NASA must thin its bureaucracy and involve the private sector as much as possible, in everything from earth-bound research to spacecraft launches.
Just as President Kennedy sparked an explosion of innovation when he set America's sights on the moon, I hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more, spurring new discoveries and breakthroughs that will make our economy stronger, our nation more secure and our planet safer for our children.
That's the biggest take ever for a midnight opening, breaking a record set by the second Twilight film, New Moon.
Recently the Seoul government announced it would set up a center in Paris to help Korean designers like Moon Young Hee and Lie Sang Bong.
We have the technology and ability to exploit the resources found on the moon and in the asteroid belt as well as sending a manned mission to Mars to set up a permanent base.
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Mining the moon for fuel used in nuclear fusion reactors is among NASA's 200-plus set of mission goals and could precipitate another reason for other countries and private investors to join future lunar exploration.
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