Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb...
Source: We Choose to Go to the Moon
Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon...
Source: My Life by Bill Clinton
Moon voyages became popular in the 1630s, their underlying inspiration Galileo’s telescope and the curiosity it piqued about the planet; but the way of reaching the new world on the moon was more important than the substance of an ideal...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
Source: Eclipse by Pink Floyd
Feet, they hardly touch the ground - Walking on the moon
Source: Walking on the Moon by The Police
The moon appears to shine and light the skies, with the help of some fireflies
Source: Baby I Love Your Way (Big Mountain) by Big Mountain
There's a man on the moon and he says that he's not coming down - But he's thinking of you every time the world spins around
Source: Man on the Moon (Jesus Jones) by Jesus Jones
There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.
Source: Eclipse by Pink Floyd
High Time We Made a Stand
Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.
It Was Always Burning Since the World’s Been Turning
And I’m trying to believe in things that I don’t know. The turning of the world, the color of your soul.
