Illustrations By Roger Dean.

The Far Side of the Moon, detail from a Space Age lunar map published by C. S. Hammond & Co., 1969.

(David Rumsey Map Collection)

U.S. Navy Douglas A-1 Skyraider by Luccio Perinotto.

Preparing for the approach

A Colorful Moon The Moon is normally seen in subtle shades of grey or yellow. But small, measurable color differences have been greatly exaggerated to make this telescopic, multicolored, moonscape captured during the Moon’s full phase. The different colors are recognized to correspond to real differences in the chemical makeup of the lunar surface. Blue hues reveal titanium rich areas while orange and purple colors show regions relatively poor in titanium and iron. The familiar Sea of Tranquility, or Mare Tranquillitatis, is the blue area in the upper right corner of the frame. White lines radiate across the orange-hued southern lunar highlands from 85 kilometer wide ray crater Tycho at bottom left. Above it, darker rays from crater Copernicus extend into the Sea of Rains (Mare Imbrium) at the upper left. Calibrated by rock samples from the Apollo missions, similar multicolor images from spacecraft have been used to explore the Moon’s global surface composition. Image Credit & Copyright: László Francsics

Robert McCall

The original DUNE Soundtrack.

Space Shuttle Atlantis launch, 3 October 1985.

Circular Windows - 221006

SSTO Orbital Lander

Movie: Interstellar UI Design: Double Negative

“I would like to humanize the space age by giving a perspective from a non-astronaut, because I think the students will look at that and say, ‘This is an ordinary person. This ordinary person is contributing to history.’”

—Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948–January 28, 1986)