moon
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Watch the BBC's documentary about the Artemis II moon mission.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Goth Shakira: It’s the full moon in Aquarius today, and full moons represent a culmination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Trump signed the order Friday at an event dedicated to the astronauts who flew around the moon and back earlier this year on NASA’s Artemis II mission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The US president also presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission, which flew past the moon in April.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
‘About a moon ago it came,’ Renn went on quietly.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Goth Shakira: It’s the full moon in Aquarius today, and full moons represent a culmination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
One theory for the origin of the Martian moons -- the "giant impact" hypothesis -- is that they formed after a celestial body collided with Mars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The spacecraft will also observe Demios, the other of Mars' moons -- but without landing -- before a return capsule heads back to Earth to land in Australia in around 2031.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
"We were shocked to find the observed clays, which had to come from objects that were much, much bigger than Neptune's small inner ring moons."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The ceiling, which had somehow become curved, was filled with little round moons.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
You wouldn't even be getting this kind of coverage if Silvio Berlusconi mooned Barack Obama in front of the UN.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013
The worst that anti-gay rights activists faced was being mooned or flipped the bird.
From Slate ● May 16, 2012
So far, she seems mild-mannered compared with McQueen, who once mooned the crowd, in lieu of a bow, at the end of his runway show.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011
Mate mooned over one in red patent leather with a snap in the shape of a heart.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024
Now it’s possible to find statues of gnomes mooning, sitting on the toilet and vomiting rainbows.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
He does big swings of mood, laughing hysterically, weeping when necessary, mooning over nature like a Beat poet.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
Bad-boy drummer Tommy Lee, known for mooning the audience and for his marriage to Heather Locklear, is a key part of the band’s hardcore image.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Vonetta went on and on about all the money we were saving and how she made sure Fern and I didn’t waste our money buying candy, airmail stamps, and mooning over boys in Oakland.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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