Soho House in Handsworth, West Midlands | Handsworth, Birmingham, a regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society

Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.

Shortly after his arrival Lunar meetings moved from Sunday afternoons to Mondays to accommodate Priestley's duties as a clergyman, while the society's dependence on Matthew Boulton was lessened by holding meetings at other members ' houses in addition to Soho House.

Samuel Galton, Jr., unusual as a Quaker who was also a gun-manufacturer, appears in the letters of other Lunar members as attending meetings from July 1781, and his daughter Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was to provide one of the few first-hand accounts of the Lunar Society's activities.

The botanist and physician Jonathan Stokes, who had known William Withering as a child, moved to Stourbridge and started attending Lunar Society meetings from 1783.

Most significantly, Erasmus Darwin moved to Derby in 1781, but although he complained of being " cut off from the milk of science ", he continued to attend Lunar Society meetings at least until 1788.

Regular meetings are recorded into the nineteenth century-eight in 1800, five or six before August 1801 and at least one in 1802, while as late as 1809 Leonard Horner was describing " the remnant of the Lunar Society " as being " very interesting ".

Soho House was a regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society.

Financial problems led the Scott Family ( who gave their name to the nearby Scott Arms pub and shopping centre ), to lease out the hall from about 1788 to Samuel Galton, and for some years the Hall became a venue for meetings of the Lunar Society.

Great Barr Hall, Galton's home and a venue for meetings of the Lunar Society, is nearby.

Soho House, regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society of BirminghamThe 18th century saw the sudden emergence of Birmingham at the forefront of worldwide developments in science, technology, medicine, philosophy and natural history as part of the cultural transformation now known as the Midlands Enlightenment.

Analysis of the subject-matter of Lunar Society meetings shows that its main concern was with pure scientific investigation rather than manufacturing, and the influence of Midlands Enlightenment thinkers can be seen in areas as diverse as education, the philosophy of mind, Romantic poetry, the theory of evolution and the invention of photography.

Atari had been in the process of manufacturing another vector game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high " that several hundred Asteroids games were shipped in Lunar Lander cabinets.

During the delay, the spacesuits, a spacecraft separation mechanism and batteries in the Lunar Module ( LM ) were modified and tested.

Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.

The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.

After preparations for the day's moonwalk were completed, the astronauts climbed out of the Lunar Module.

At above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the Lunar Module of any other Apollo mission.

The visuals were drastically simplified, being closer to early shooters like Wolfenstein 3D ; also, it consists solely of Lunar Apocalypse, the second from the original game's three " episodes ", which was heavily modified to suit the engine.

Apollo flights 18 and 19 were cancelled in September 1970, but Schmitt was assigned in August 1971 to fly on the last lunar mission, Apollo 17, replacing Joe Engle as Lunar Module Pilot.

The Lunar Society flourished from 1765 to 1809, and it has been said of them, " They were, if you like, the revolutionary committee of that most far reaching of all the eighteenth century revolutions, the Industrial Revolution ".

The first astronauts to visit the Moon were quarantined upon their return at the specially built Lunar Receiving Laboratory.

In later, more scientific years, their names were given to the Lunar nodes.

During this time the Ares I and Orion as well as the Altair Lunar Lander were to be under development ( although now these programs have been canceled ).

In 2008, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project ( LOIRP ) was given space in the old McDonalds ( the building has since been renamed to McMoons ) to digitize data tapes from the five 1966 and 1967 Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that were sent to the Moon.

The sting operation was known as " Operation Lunar Eclipse " and the participating agencies were NASA Office of Inspector General, the United States Postal Inspection Service and U. S. Customs.

Along with learning the new Apollo Command / Service Module ( CSM ) and the Apollo Lunar Module ( LM ), Collins received helicopter training, as these were thought to be the best way to simulate the landing approach of the LM.

It returned five black and white stereoscopic circular panoramas, which were the first close-up shots of the Lunar surface.

Lunar samples were obtained by means of an extendable drilling apparatus.

All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.

During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966.

The Lunar Orbiters were all eventually commanded to crash on the Moon before their attitude control fuel ran out so they would not present navigational or communications hazards to later Apollo flights.

Young, Mattingly and Duke continued preparing for Lunar Module ( LM ) activation and undocking shortly after waking up to begin flight day five.

After completing the boundary survey in America, Mason returned to Greenwich where he continued work on Mayer's Lunar Tables.

His bureau continued with a series of impressive successes, the first ( and only ) Lunar rovers, landings on Venus and robotic sample return of moon rocks.

Following Khrushchev's removal, Chelomey's and Korolyov's projects were combined, but the Soviet Lunar program continued.

The second of the so-called J-missions, the mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly.

Young drove the rover to a point about east of the Lunar Module, known as the ' VIP site ', so its television camera, controlled remotely by mission control, could observe Apollo 16's liftoff from the Moon.

image: Challenger 4x. png | Landing site, as imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009.

imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011.

The nude goddess, identified by the Lunar phase | crescent moon in her hair and the bow and quiver at her side, reclines on a blue drapery.

In " Episode Two: Lunar Apocalypse ", Duke journeys to space, where he finds many of the captured women held in various incubators throughout space stations that had been conquered by the aliens.

Previous to the 1960 change, the ' Improved Lunar Ephemeris ' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952-1959 ( computed by W J Eckert from Brown's theory with modifications recommended by Clemence ( 1948 )).

The stormy barbarians with their brutal but honest Storm God struggle against the Lunar Empire, led by the imperial Sun God and devious Moon Goddess.

Another means for the spread of innovation was by the network of informal philosophical societies, like the Lunar Society of Birmingham, in which members met to discuss ' natural philosophy ' ( i. e. science ) and often its application to manufacturing.

At first called the Lunar Circle, " Lunar Society " became the formal name by 1775.

The group at this time is sometimes referred to as the " Lunar circle ", though this is a later description used by historians, and the group themselves used a variety of less specific descriptions, including " Birmingham Philosophers " or simply " fellow-schemers ".

His contribution to the society was significant but short-lived: after collaborating with Withering on his Botanical Arrangement of British Plants the two quarrelled bitterly and Stokes severed his relations with the main Lunar members by 1788.

In more recent times a new Lunar Society was formed in Birmingham, England, by a group led by Dame Rachel Waterhouse.

This began with the Lunar Logistics System ( LLS ), followed by the Mobility Laboratory ( MOLAB ), then the Lunar Scientific Survey Module ( LSSM ), and finally the Mobility Test Article ( MTA ).

In early planning for the Apollo Program, it had been assumed that two Saturn V launch vehicles would be used for each lunar mission: one for sending the crew aboard a Lunar Surface Module ( LSM ) to lunar orbit, landing, and returning, and a second for sending an LSM-Truck ( LSM-T ) with all of the equipment, supplies, and transport vehicle for use by the crew while on the surface.

* Total Lunar Eclipse, December 2010-slideshow by Life magazine

The term lunatic was also used by supporters of John Harrison and his marine chronometer method of determining longitude to refer to proponents of the Method of Lunar Distances, advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.