CELEBRATING ... JULY 20 UN INTERNATIONAL MOON DAY
About the International Moon Day
The Moon Village Association submitted an application during the UN-COPUOS 64th Session, for the proclamation of the International Moon Day on July 20, the anniversary of the 1969 first human landing, from the United States of America, with the Apollo 11 mission. The proclamation has been approved on December 9 2021, by the UN General Assembly.
The Space Futures Forum will host in partnership with Aerospace Corporation a performance of MOON RUNNINGS: The Life and Times of the First Jamaican on the Moon at 11:30 AM EDT on July 11th, written and performed by global futurist and sustainability engineer, Dr. Claire Nelson. Dr Nelson first performed this story as a hologram at the Arizona State University's Emerge Festival of the Future in 2016.
MOON RUNNINGS is a One-Woman Storytelling?Experience about how?LUNARVILLE:JANNALI – The Space Heritage Site on the Moon came into being, set in the future.??The show tells how the JANNALI initiative was conceived by the United Planetary Society to Assure Rights to Space – a global organization seeded by the Space Forum, ignited by passion of a small band of advocates and actionaries representing the 99 percent of non-billionaire space enthusiasts.?Their mission is their vision.?Their vision – a Lunar settlement where all are welcome.?Ad Luna.?Ad Astra.?Ad Futura.?Space For All Humanity.?
Moon Exploration has started when Luna 2, a spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Many more spacecrafts have been launched in the last 62 years from different countries such as the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, China, India and Israel, in order to better understand the Moon and its relationship to Earth. However, the first human landing on the Moon, on 20 July 1969 by the Apollo 11 mission of the United States, represents the pinnacle of these efforts.
IThe International Moon Day will be an annual event, held for the general public celebrated across the planet, in cooperation with UNOOSA. The vision is to foster increased global cooperation between stakeholders all around the world, as well as promoting increasing participation to this goal of the future generation.
A Message from the Chair of International Moon Day