Have we been to the Moon?

Yes, we HAVE been to the Moon. Six times, twelve people, who were backed by the hard work, determination, and brilliance of thousands of others.

We're not here to debate this fact. If that is what interests you, this is not the place for such discussion. If you are weighing the evidence, go to Bad Astronomy, or MythBusters. If you are interested in the past, present, and future exploration of the Moon, you are in the right place!

Our NASA Collaborators

Okay, the spacecraft missions are not actual collaborators, but the people working with the spacecraft and instruments and data are.

We're grateful (thrilled, in fact) to report that this project is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate (the part of NASA that brought you robots on Mars and spacecraft gathering information about Saturn, and the Hubble Space Telescope). Thanks NASA! Seriously.

And thanks to viewers like you!

MyMoon is a product of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, produced through funding from NASA NASA Research Announcement NNH08ZDA001N-EPO (ROSES 2008, Opportunities in Science Mission Directorate Education and Public Outreach). The Institute is operated by the Universities Space Research Association under Cooperative Agreement No. NCC5-679 issued through the Solar System Exploration Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Are you still reading this? Can't you guess what it says?

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Want more research-y fact-y type science and engineering info about the Moon? We do link to the best resources out there.

But you can also check out the NASA portal and get lost (literally) searching through the plethora of info contained within that cyber black hole. And there's always Wikipedia. No seriously. There's some good stuff on there, too. And then there's the library (a physical entity that contains books, written works printed on pages bound together); go visit your librarian, she misses you.