The refueling happened in tiny mountain towns that looked like the surface of the moon.
In 1972, "Apollo 16" astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.
"We believe that beyond the prize, there's actually ongoing commerce on the surface of the moon, " he reveals.
Our people answered his call and rose to the challenge, and today an American flag still marks the surface of the moon.
Scientists think mercury atoms may "hop" across the surface of the Moon towards the poles, causing them to be concentrated in these regions.
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Together, we touched the surface of the moon, unlocked the mystery of the atom, connected the world through our own science and our own imaginations.
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The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.
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If kept up, this would eventually result in the Earth looking like the surface of the Moon, as it is already doing in some places.
But their journey will come to an end this Monday, Dec. 17th when the two probes will be deliberately crashed into the surface of the Moon.
Certainly it claims it wishes, like President John Kennedy 50 years ago, to send people to the surface of the moon and return them safely to Earth.
It's that light that's illuminating the surface of the Moon.
It's often said that we know more about the surface of the Moon or even of Mars than we do about the two-thirds of our planet covered by water.
As Laine explains in the video, an elevator from the surface of the Moon to a rendezvous point between the Earth and its satellite is actually possible using current technology.
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Some have even suggested the loose rock regolith on the surface of the moon or Mars as a growing medium, although additional minerals would need to be brought from Earth.
The next astronauts to step out onto the dusty gray surface of the moon will be wearing a suit that's very different from the bulky white armor worn by the Apollo explorers.
That would give it a resolution of a few thousandths of an arc-second enough, were this an optical rather than a radio telescope, to see a boulder just a few metres across on the surface of the moon.
As we were leaving the museum through the Rose Center for Earth and Space, past stunning images of the Apollo astronauts working on the surface of the moon, I asked her, for the record, why she'd never felt the urge to visit before.
These pictures will be posted on the website and used as a stepping stone for students to learn more about the Lunar surface, the history of the Moon, and potential landing sites for future Moon missions.
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Like Earth, Titan's atmosphere is composed primarily of nitrogen, but the liquids and vapors on the moon's surface are made of methane and other organic chemicals integral to the creation of complex life.
The television pictures on board were designed to begin operating when the rocket came within 2, 500 miles (4, 023km) of the lunar surface - 40 minutes before impact - and then send an image of the Moon back to Earth every 13 seconds.
The Outer Space Treaty says governments cannot claim ownership of the lunar surface and that stations and installations on the moon shall be open to others, said Hedman.
The device counts neutrons that cosmic rays have knocked out of atoms on the moon's surface.
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Crops need a sheltered environment, protected from the extreme temperatures and frightening levels of radiation found on the moon's surface, with water, carbon dioxide and light.
The surface of this snow-white moon is riven with cracks - dubbed tiger stripes - at its south pole.
Although the moon's topography has already been comprehensively charted, these other kinds of map exist only for a narrow belt around the equator, amounting to just a quarter of the moon's surface.
He once was asked how he felt knowing his footprints would likely stay on the moon's surface for thousands of years.
The asteroids hit the surface hard, over and over, and since the Moon has been a solid body for most of its history, their materials stay on or close to the surface.
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SMART-1, which has been orbiting lower and lower around the moon, will soon crash onto the surface of the heavenly body.
Cosmic rays from a supernova would have scorched the moon, leaving signs of damage in surface minerals that could be visible to microscopes.
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It was specifically designed to crash-land on the Moon after capturing a series of images of the lunar surface on its approach.
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