Just a three-day trip from Earth by spacecraft, the luminous Moon beckons. Only 12 men — American astronauts on Apollo missions — have set foot on its near-black, powdery surface and no person has been there since December 1972.
But today, many scientists and engineers in the U.S. and elsewhere are determined to send people back to the Moon — while others work to send robots there first.
Credit: NASA
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Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org)
in collaboration with MadaTech: The Israel National Museum of Science, Technology & Space, Haifa, Israel.
Beyond Planet Earth is made possible through the sponsorship of
And is proudly supported by Con Edison.
Major funding has been provided by The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund.
Additional support is generously provided by
Marshall P. and Rachael C. Levine
Drs. Harlan B. and Natasha Levine
Mary and David Solomon
Presented with special thanks to NASA.
