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The Orion spacecraft recently flew within 81 miles of the moon’s surface, the first leg of NASA’s Artemis mission to revisit our lunar neighbor. Artemis II plans to launch in 2024 with astronauts aboard. Artemis III is expected to return astronauts to the lunar surface with the help of Space X. The present spacecraft has three occupants, but they are mannequins (or manikins?), dummies with sensors attached. One small step for mannequin…and the exact same step for manikin-kind.

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Thankfully, no more than about forty percent of Americans believe the moon is made of cheese anymore. But if you’re one of that minority of citizens, you might be interested in Moon Cheese products, such as Cheddar Believe It and Oh My Gouda! Available in many fine grocery stores near you or at www.mooncheese.com.

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The moon has had an oversized presence in Hollywood, thanks to its aggressive agent, Harvey Roquefort.  Moon-related films run the gamut from the heartwarming to the ridiculous, some Oscar winners, others not so much. Unfortunately, the Wallace and Gromit flick, A Grand Day Out, perpetuates the cheese myth (see above). In the 1963 movie, The Mouse On The Moon, two citizens of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick accidentally win the race to the moon over the Americans and Soviets using wine as a rocket propellant. The more serious film Moon, starring Sam Rockwell, involves the cloning of Sam Bell, the sole inhabitant of a station on the dark side of the moon run by Lunar Industries to extract Helium-3. It is directed by Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, the son of David Bowie, the original space oddity...ground control to Major Tom...