There is renewed interest in the Moon in recent years, with the news that a Chinese lunar rover landed on the Moon in January 2014, and NASA announcing that it is looking for private partners to land a robot on the Moon's surface, as the first step in a programme to exploit the commercial opportunities offered by the Moon

* The Moon in the sky - the motions of the Moon in the sky, explaining its orbit around the Earth, illumination phases and oscillations. *Telescopic mapping - the early telescopic observations and subsequent mapping of the Moon. *What we knew prior to the Space Age - a summary of what we knew about the Moon prior to the first exploratory visits by man and his machines. *Space missions - probes, landers, orbiters and manned missions, their objectives and the discoveries they made. *The Moon today - a summary of our knowledge of the Moon today, and the potential for future exploration, including the search for ice in the polar regions. *Appendix providing details of all pertinent space missions to the Moon. *A complimentary Manual to Planet Earth Manual, Apollo 11 Manual and Lunar Rover Manual.