. Most of us who have seen the Moon through a telescope or binoculars know it's a fascinating object, especially when You can observe the shadows in craters and lunar valleys near the lunar terminator... In 2018 the 50th anniversaries of the Apollo missions started and will continu untill 2022... Apollo 17 Having visited the Moon by manned & unmanned spacecraft, our natural satellite still holds some mysteries: LTP - Lunar Transient Phenomena, why is the Moon shrinking, Moon' sodium tail, tectonic Moonquakes, etc... After a 5000 years old fascination of depicting the Moon, the 20th century allowed an artist to place an artifact on the Lunar Surface... The " Fallen Astronaut " sculpture, by Belgian Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, was brought to the Moon by the Apollo 15 crew... See: .
A couple of years ago, I was shown the original design and had the privilige to hold the "reserve" Fallen Astronaut statuette in my hand... .