** ( Actual − 12. 7 ) A full Moon reflects 30 % more light at full phase than a perfect diffuse reflector predicts.

** The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford ( published 1977 )

** Harvest Festival, celebrated on Harvest Moon, the full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox.

** Chuseok, the Korean harvest festival, celebrated on the Harvest Moon.

** A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies ( Sun, Moon, planets Mercury – Saturn ) occurs during the New Moon.

** Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon.

** Space: 1999 ( 1975 – 1977 ): A huge explosion sends the Moon hurtling out of Earth's orbit on September 13 ( a Friday in the series, but not in reality ).

** Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.

** The Apollo 11 astronauts return from the first successful Moon landing, and are placed in biological isolation for several days, on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs.

** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

** Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proving that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the space age.

** Soleil Moon Frye, American actress

** Apollo 17 ( Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt ), the last manned Moon mission to date, is launched.

** Warren Moon, American football player and quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos ( Canada )

** Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist, founder of the Unification Church ( d. 2012 )

** The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

** Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U. S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.

** Apollo program: Apollo 13 ( Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert ) is launched toward the Moon.

** Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples.

** Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium ( Sea of Rains ) on the Moon.

** Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.

** Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.

** Engineer Unit

** Administration Unit

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** The Unit for Language and Communication

** London Road Safety Unit, which promotes safer roads through advertising and road safety measure.

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

** Freight Unit, which is currently developing the " London Freight Plan " and is involved with setting up and supporting a number of Freight Quality Partnerships covering key areas of London.

** Unit of observation, a type of entity ( e. g. person, house, neighborhood ) specifying the level at which data is collected

** Unit of analysis, a type of entity ( e. g. person, house, neighborhood ) specifying the level at which data is analyzed

** Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and lieutenant general of Unit 731 ( d. 1959 )

** Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process

** Bond County Community Unit School District 2

** Interdependent Occupational Unit

** After World War II Lambertsen called his 1940-1944 rebreather LARU ( for Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit ) but as of 1952 Lambertsen renamed again his invention and coins the acronym SCUBA ( for " self-contained underwater breathing apparatus ").

** Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1999 – present ), also known as L & O: SVU

** VPI Extension Office-C. Taylor Clarke ( Unit Coordinator / ANR Extension Agent )

** Rescue 2 ( Special Operations Unit )

** Toshiba: MSX FM-synthesizer Unit ( no sample RAM, no MSX-Audio BIOS )

** UNTAET Force Headquarters Support Unit ( FHSU )/ Philippine Contingent to East Timor ( PhilCET )

** UNMISET Force Headquarters Support Unit ( FHSU )/ Philippine Contingent to East Timor ( PhilCET )

** Oketz Unit

** 1 x Incident Command Unit,

** Censorship Compliance Unit

** Crime Prevention Unit