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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 17. Chapters: Tsiolkovskiy, Pasteur, Curie, Bowditch, Sklodowska, Hirayama, Hilbert, Necho, Fermi, Be va, Koval'skiy, Meitner, Langemak, Lauritsen, Saha, Einthoven, Patsaev, Hohmann, Ganskiy, Zhiritskiy, Purkyn, Brunner, Alden, Love, Titius, Vesalius, Lents, Wyld, Backlund, Prager, Volkov, Schaeberle, Stark, Danjon, Dobrovol'skiy, Lander, Perepelkin, Hume, Neujmin, Perel'man, Scaliger, Polzunov, Kondratyuk, D'Arsonval, Ritz, Khvol'son, Litke, Buisson, Lane, Izsak, Waterman, Lacus Solitudinis, Couder, Xenophon, Shirakatsi, Ludwig, Chalonge, Debus, Sherrington, Diderot, Babakin, Delporte. Excerpt: Tsiolkovskiy is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the southern hemisphere, to the west of the crater Gagarin, and northwest of Milne. Just to the south is Waterman, with Neujmin to the south-southwest. This feature was discovered on photographs sent back by Luna 3. Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt and other scientists (Schmitt was the only trained scientist, a geologist, to walk on the moon) strongly advocated Tsiolkovskiy as the Apollo 17's, or a later flight's (which were all canceled), landing site, using small communications satellites deployed from the Command/Service Module for communication from the far side of the moon. NASA vetoed the idea as too risky, and Apollo 17 instead landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley on December 11, 1972. This is one of the most prominent features to be found on that hemisphere. It possesses high, terraced inner walls and a well-formed central peak. The floor is unusual for a crater on the far side, as it is covered by the dark-hued mare that is characteristic of the maria found on the near side. The distribution of the mare material is not symmetrical across the floor, but is instead more heavily concentrated to the east and south. There is...
