The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System
summary
Apollo brought back a 4.3 billion year old rock that supports the giant impact origin of the Moon and humans last walked there in 1972; robotic missions now map and probe it. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter maps Apollo sites and shows dark fresh footprints, LCROSS impactor finds water plus hydroxyls, ammonia and nitrates, Chang'e 4 lands on the far side with a relay satellite and rover, a private lander attempts a low-cost lunar touchdown, and NASA plans a Gateway in near-rectilinear halo orbit as a refueling and teleoperation hub.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Start
- 0:31Building Bases on the Moon
- 5:22Apollo Project
- 6:11Gene Cernan the Last Man on the Moon
- 8:12The Fea Theory
- 11:01Enron Rocket
- 12:26The Strategic Defense Initiative
- 14:20Clementine
- 16:12The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- 22:40Water Production Machine
- 22:58Resource Prospector
- 24:57Relay Satellite
- 26:17Google Xprize
- 27:24Payload Supplies to the Moon
- 28:03The Lunar Gateway
- 28:47Near Rectilinear Orbit
- 31:00Luna 25 Mission
- 33:58Landers on the Moon
- 35:27The Tillow Power Reactor Using Stirling
- 35:42Reactor Core
- 36:45What Will We Do on the Moon
- 38:27Solar Panels on the Moon
- 39:16Put Solar Panels in Space and Beam the Power to the Surface of the Earth
- 39:54Gravity Gradients
- 41:57What Has the Station Done for Humanity
- 42:45The Cerebral Spinal Fluid System
- 47:29Marius Skylight
- 49:37Radio Telescopes on the Far Side of the Moon
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