We have tried to give the highest priority to the research that we need to get to the moon and Mars and beyond. Is the science scaled back? You bet it is. But is it no science at all? No, we're still trying to utilize this station all we can up there.

This research shows that even after the collisions happened, the earth had a profound effect on the moon.

Pluto has always been a problem because it's less massive than the moon...[and] it's only about one 500th as massive as the Earth. So is it just a rock or is it a real planet?

We're certainly delighted to be able to add this important series to our research collection ...

Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!