The Man Who Sold the Moon Moses must have looked, when he gazed out over the promised land." The Man Who Sold the Moon is also the title of two collections of Heinlein's short stories. Both collections include "Let There Be Light", "The Roads Must Roll", and "Requiem"; the first also includes "Life-Line" and "Blowups Happen". Although the science fiction film "Destination Moon" is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel "Rocket Ship Galileo", the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to "The Man Who Sold the Moon". However, the technology of "The Man Who Sold the Moon" is very different: its rocket
Geology of the Moon of the Moon are based on a combination of Earth-based telescope observations, measurements from orbiting spacecraft, lunar samples, and geophysical data. Six locations were sampled directly during the crewed Apollo program landings from 1969 to 1972, which returned of lunar rock and lunar soil to Earth. In addition, three robotic Soviet Luna spacecraft returned another from 1970 to 1976. The Moon is the only extraterrestrial body for which we have samples with a known geologic context. A handful of lunar meteorites have been recognized on Earth, though their source craters on the Moon are unknown. A substantial portion of the