Deliver me to the Moon

Dear Reader,

Humans have always wondered about the universe and always strive to know more about the universe we live it. Our nearest celestial body, the Moon, has been the subject of many movies, books, songs, poems, moods, and even a means of rationalizing some of the things we do. We've now gone beyond the Moon and are stretching our arms towards Mars and beyond. And who wouldn't want to go to another planet and have an out of earth experience.

My nephews, together we call them ROAR are 5 and 2 year old. They first learned about the moon by looking up on a starry night in LA and were fascinated by this big round white object, that sometimes is a little orange and keeps changing shape every day. They learned more about other planets in our solar system in day care and ask plenty of questions about the Moon and how to get there. And thus were introduced to drones, airplanes, jets, rockets and shuttles. Here a collage of ROAR, roaring to the camera :)

But they didn't stop with how to get to the moon, they wanted to know where to go on the moon and asked me questions like "Can we go to someone's house?", "Can we land on the airport?", "Can we send something to the moon?", etc. When I told them that no one really lives on the moon and it's not easy for someone to live on the moon due to its gravity and atmosphere, they were heart broken and slowly they forgot about the moon. But their fascination with airplanes and anything that can fly didn't end.

This got me thinking about how would someone decide where to go on the moon or for that matter any planet?

There are no streets, landmarks, buildings or even countries on the Moon. Some locations on the Moon are named but thankfully the moon has coordinates just like our Earth and they are called Selenographic coordinates. One can pin point any location on the moon with its selenographic coordinates and even deliver something on the moon.

Man isn't just restricting him/her to the Moon. We have even started thinking about how to deliver to Mars and have figured out how to send stuff to Mars via a postal service!

It would be interesting to see what is the first thing we deliver to the moon (or for that matter even Mars). I, for one, am curious to know. What do you think?

Until next time.

Regards,
Jyothin

PS: ROAR miss you guys!