But no unambiguous evidence of a lunar meteor flash has ever been recorded.
An example of a lunar eclipse record, dating from 80 bce, is as follows.
All thoughts of a lunar landing had long since been abandoned.
While we were in his office, I noticed a framed copy of a lunar etching from the "Sidereus Nuncius".
Together the drawings — surprisingly delicate scratches of white lines — look like serial images of a lunar eclipse.
An ambitious attempt to discover the contents of a lunar crater by crash landing a spent rocket has revealed a "treasure chest" of elements on the Moon.
Thanks to the insertion of a lunar leap month last year, the Chinese New Year holiday falls especially late this February (it begins on the 18th).
When the Moon moves through the shadow of Earth (see the figure of a lunar eclipse), it dims considerably but remains faintly visible.
There are models of a lunar landing module and a Saturn rocket, both produced by NASA in the 1960s, and a moon camera used before the Apollo missions.
The 29 performances, featuring a different monologue each night at 7 at the Public Theater, will align with the 29-day cycle of a lunar month, running Sept. 5 through Oct. 3. "I'm fascinated by time frames that aren't built by hyper-scheduled humans, like the 29 nights of a lunar cycle or the 24 hours in a day," Mr. Daisey said.
While challenging, "I think those are all feasible," said Dr. Haym Benaroya, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Rutgers University, who has studied, out of his own curiosity, the construction challenges of a lunar base.
