The Moon is the first destination of space literature: it was mapped, painted and dreamed of long before it could be reached. From the late 1950s, classical selenography gave way to a literature of current affairs: robotic probes, the race to the lunar landing, chronicles written at the pace of the missions.
1969 unleashed a worldwide editorial tide (commemorative albums, transcripts of the communications, mission accounts), then the post-Apollo years moved the Moon into the register of assessment and synthesis, before the projects of return revived the genre.
Read this theme as a trajectory: the Moon dreamed, the Moon targeted, the Moon walked upon, the Moon told. The entries flag what is a period document and what remains a reference read.