section_path: In culture and life/Representation in modern culture
section_name: Representation in modern culture
paragraph_text: Representation in modern culture
  
  The perception of the Moon in the modern era has been informed by telescope -enabled modern astronomy and later by spaceflight which enabled actual human activity at the Moon, particularly the culturally impactful lunar landings. These new insights inspired cultural references, connecting romantic reflections about the Moon and speculative fiction such as science-fiction dealing with the Moon.
  
  Contemporarily the Moon has been seen as a place for economic expansion into space, with missions prospecting for lunar resources. This has been accompanied with renewed public and critical reflection on humanity's cultural and legal relation to the celestial body, especially regarding colonialism, as in the 1970 poem " Whitey on the Moon ". In this light the Moon's nature has been invoked, particularly for lunar conservation and as a common.
  
  In 2021 20 July, the date of the first crewed Moon landing, became the annual International Moon Day.