{"id":259393,"date":"2025-07-30T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=12325493019b81ea266eaab29b2e2963"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:13:22","slug":"looking-forward-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259393","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"The Moon is lit so only half of it, diagonally, is visible. Along that line, craters of different sizes are visible. As you look toward the right, you can see light and dark gray areas on the Moon&#039;s surface. The Apollo 15 landing site\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg 2939w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=300,282 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=768,722 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=1024,962 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=1536,1443 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=2048,1925 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=400,376 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=600,564 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=900,846 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=1200,1128 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ksc-20220508-ph-snq01-0001orig.jpg?resize=2000,1880 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Shawn Quinn<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On May 8, 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/exploration-ground-systems\/\">NASA\u2019s Exploration Ground Systems\u2019<\/a> Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this crop of a full frame image of the Hadley\u2013Apennine region of Earth\u2019s Moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very near the edge of the shadow of one of the lunar mountains in the area). Building upon the pioneers from the Apollo Program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/artemis\/\">Artemis<\/a> crews will plan to verify capabilities for humans to explore deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/artemis\/\">Read the Artemis blog for the latest mission updates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Shawn Quinn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 8, 2022, NASA\u2019s Exploration Ground Systems\u2019 Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this crop of a full frame image of the Hadley\u2013Apennine region of Earth\u2019s Moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very near the edge of the shadow of one of the lunar mountains in the area). Building upon the pioneers from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10160,17598,15595,15596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apollo","category-apollo-15","category-artemis","category-earths-moon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259394,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259393\/revisions\/259394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}