This narrated "best-of" tour of the moon includes photos of Orientale Basin, Shackleton crater, South Pole-Aitken Basin, Tycho crater, Aristarchus Plateau, Mare Serenitatis, Compton-Belkovich ...

As rocket scientist and astronautics pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky once said, ... It would name a crater, the Wan Hoo Crater, after the world’s first aeronaut.

A = Mare Moscoviense, B = Tsiolkovsky Crater with central peak, C = Mare Smythii (on the near side-far side border) and D = Mare Crisium (near side). Credit: Roscosmos.

South Korea’s first lunar orbiter is already making great strides. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), which is also known as Danuri, reached lunar orbit in mid-December of 2022.

The most prominent crater on the far side of the moon bears his name, as does asteroid 1590 Tsiolkovsky. Tsiolkovsky died at home on Sept. 19, 1935 at the age of 78. Quotes by Tsiolkovsky ...

Tsiolkovsky crater, named after the famous Russian rocket scientist, photographed on Apollo 8. The crater was first named by Russians when photographed from the Luna III spacecraft, 1968.

Two new NASA videos use the latest close-up imagery of the moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to reveal Earth's natural satellite in a whole new light.

Crater Tsiolkovsky. NASA . The Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission captured stunning images of the moon during its December 1968 journey. The 150-kilometer wide Tsiolkovsky crater takes center stage in ...

The first astronaut to see Tycho, the Marius Hills, Tsiolkovsky Crater, or the lunar South Pole will not necessarily be American or even an employee of any nation-state.