The Waxing Gibbous Moon - the lunar phase between first quarter Moon and a full Moon - will be approximately one degree south of Jupiter appearing to be only a pen width apart.
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On the moon, we had one-sixth of Earth's gravity, allowing Neil and me to move around easily in the Eagle to put on equipment for our walk.
Partly because of their longevity -- no one wants to change a light bulb on the Moon -- but also their hardiness.
However, while mining helium-3 from the moon will be one challenge, extracting energy from it is another, as it relies on nuclear fusion, rather than fission used in today's nuclear reactors.
In ground-based images, the patch of sky (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, for example, said at one point this week that almost 17, 000 people have died.
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The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter contains millions of these rocky fragments, the biggest among them measuring one-quarter the size of the Moon.
It might, if one heeds the words of Ban Ki-moon, be more suitably designated Global Lack of Nutrition Day.
The discovery would appear to resolve a longstanding mystery in planetary science: why the walnut-shaped Iapetus has a two-tone complexion, with one side of the moon significantly darker than the other.
Richards was just one of many children left wide-eyed and inspired by the moon landings.
For example, in 2011's Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Shia LaBeouf wears a T-shirt made by Chinese clothing maker Metersbonwe and, in one scene, a character drinks a carton of Shuhua milk made by dairy group Yili.
His boss there, Bruce Rioch, thought so highly of the towering centre-back, that he said if he was going to the moon and could only take one man with him, then Tony Mowbray would be the man he would want by his side.
"ITS costs less than one percent of the investment necessary to build a four-lane road, " Moon said.
Perhaps they were inspired by one of the most famous space-related hoaxes, the so-called Great Moon Hoax of 1835.
But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.
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