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Lunar lander family for the Artemis program
on-orbit storage of their cryogenic propellants. Several spacecraft designs are included in the Blue Moon program. These include the Mark 1 lander, the Mark 2
Blue_Moon_(spacecraft)
2025 lunar landing mission
Blue Ghost Mission 1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace (Firefly). The spacecraft soft-landed on the lunar surface on March
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Blue Origin lunar lander test flight
Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 1 is a planned robotic lunar landing mission to be operated by Blue Origin. As a flight test of a prototype Blue Moon Mark
Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 1
Blue_Moon_Pathfinder_Mission_1
Planned spaceflight mission
or Blue Origin's Blue Moon. The lander will be launched first. Once it is ready, a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will launch an Orion spacecraft carrying
Artemis_IV
Arrival of a spacecraft on the Moon's surface
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a crewed or robotic spacecraft on the Moon. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2
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Lunar lander developed by Firefly Aerospace
the Moon, at Mare Crisium. The second Blue Ghost mission is scheduled for launch in late 2026. Both the lander and the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft will
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American aerospace company
the Blue Ring spacecraft platform, and the Orbital Reef space station in partnership with other organizations. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin
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Planned Blue Origin robotic lunar mission
Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 2 is a planned robotic lunar landing mission developed by Blue Origin as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Blue Moon Pathfinder Mission 2
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Lunar lander variant of SpaceX Starship
lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed
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surface, followed later that year by Luna 10, the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the Moon. In 1968, the Zond 5 mission became the first to carry
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Topics referred to by the same term
Look up blue moon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A blue moon is an astronomical phenomenon. Blue Moon may also refer to: The Blue Moon (musical)
Blue_Moon_(disambiguation)
Large staged combustion rocket engine by Blue Origin
The Blue Engine 7 is a liquid hydrogen/oxygen dual expander cycle engine for use with the Blue Moon family of lunar landers. The company utilizes additive
BE-7
Upcoming crewed mission of the Artemis program
Orion and test versions of commercial Human Landing System spacecraft being developed by Blue Origin and SpaceX. NASA describes Artemis III as a risk-reduction
Artemis_III
Lunar Impactor
stage (and data-collecting Shepherding Spacecraft) striking the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon. Centaur had nominal impact mass of 2,305 kg
LCROSS
Vehicle or machine designed to fly in space
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications,
Spacecraft
2026 crewed flyby of the Moon
performance, the spacecraft executed a trans-lunar injection (TLI) burn to depart Earth orbit. Orion then traveled toward the Moon on a free-return trajectory
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to the Moon List of retroreflectors on the Moon Lunar plaques Moon landing Timeline of Solar System exploration Tourism on the Moon Spacecraft was in
List of artificial objects on the Moon
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American space project
was to test sensors and spacecraft components in long-term exposure to space and to make scientific observations of both the Moon and the near-Earth asteroid
Clementine_(spacecraft)
2025 lunar landing mission
of the Moon on 6 March 2025. Contact was temporarily lost during the landing process; when it was re-established, data indicated the spacecraft was not
IM-2
NASA-led lunar exploration program
or Blue Origin's Blue Moon. The lander will be launched first. Once it is ready, a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will launch an Orion spacecraft carrying
Artemis_program
Spacecraft intended to land on the surface of the Moon
A lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon. As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander
Lunar_lander
2024 lunar landing mission
payload is a passive Moon Phases art sculpture, on the side facing towards the ground.) Odysseus became the first American spacecraft Moon landing since the
IM-1
Fifth orbital flight of the Artemis program
Vehicle would also have been delivered. Two astronauts will board the Blue Moon lunar lander and fly it down to the lunar south pole to land near the
Artemis_V
Third crewed Moon landing
following the failure of Apollo 13 to reach the Moon's surface, and the need for modifications to the spacecraft as a result. Commander Alan Shepard, Command
Apollo_14
European mission to study Jupiter and its moons since 2023
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). It is on its way to
Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Explorer
Planned lander spacecraft component of NASA's cancelled Project Constellation
Astronauts would have used the spacecraft for landings on the Moon, which was intended to begin around 2019. The Altair spacecraft was planned to be used both
Altair_(spacecraft)
1990 Japanese lunar probe
the spacecraft crashing into the far side of the Moon, it was decided to use the last fuel to move the impact location to the front side of the Moon so
Hiten_(spacecraft)
1961–1972 American crewed lunar exploration program
Exploration of the Moon Leslie Cantwell collection List of artificial objects on the Moon List of crewed spacecraft List of missions to the Moon Soviet crewed
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American spacecraft business executive and engineer
President of Spacecraft at Firefly Aerospace since 2026. She previously served as the company's Spacecraft Program Director, where she worked on Blue Ghost Mission
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First crewed Moon landing (1969)
LM was extracted, the combined spacecraft headed for the Moon, while the rocket stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon. This was done to avoid the third
Apollo_11
Soviet lunar module intended to be used in the Soviet lunar landing attempts
for landing and lifting off the Moon was based on the Blok E propulsion system. The Information Display System (spacecraft control panels and controls) version
LK_(spacecraft)
Lunar landers for the Artemis program
The Human Landing System (HLS) are spacecraft developed for the NASA-led Artemis program to land astronauts on the Moon. HLS vehicles are designed to transport
Human_Landing_System
US Air Force Cold War project
Force Base. The aim of the project was to recover objects and debris from spacecraft that survived re-entry through the atmosphere back to Earth and to exploit
Project_Moon_Dust
Crash of rocket into the Moon
the Moon near Einstein Crater on 5 August 2026. The spacecraft, weighing 3,900 kilograms (8,600 lb), had delivered two lunar landers in 2025 (Blue Ghost-1
2026_SpaceX_lunar_impact
2026 lunar landing mission
Blue Ghost Mission 2 is a robotic spaceflight mission planned by Firefly Aerospace for launch in 2027. The mission includes three spacecraft that will
Blue_Ghost_Mission_2
Sixth and most recent crewed Moon landing
photographed the Earth from the spacecraft as it travelled towards the Moon. One of these photographs is now known as The Blue Marble. The crew found that
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US deep space exploration programs
performs the Trans-Lunar Injection burn that sends the spacecraft out of Earth orbit and toward the Moon. This article incorporates text from this source,
List_of_Artemis_missions
First NASA mission to orbit Jupiter (1989–2003)
moons orbiting Jupiter was important evidence of the Copernican model of the solar system. It was also noted that the name was that of a spacecraft in
Galileo_(spacecraft)
1961–1966 US human spaceflight program
required for a Moon landing, to a maximum of two weeks To effect rendezvous and docking with another vehicle, and to maneuver the combined spacecraft using the
Project_Gemini
Failed Israeli lunar lander
Space Flight Center to enable precise measurements of the Earth–Moon distance. The spacecraft propulsion system was designed and built by Israel Aerospace
Beresheet
NASA crewed Moon landing spacecraft (1969–1972)
lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program. It was the first crewed spacecraft to
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Robotic spacecraft missions to the Moon by the Soviet Union (1958–1976)
Луна "Luna" meaning "Moon"), sometimes called Lunik by western media, was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union
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lunar-capable spacecraft to enable the retirement of Soyuz. The first uncrewed and crewed flight is planned for 2028. Blue Moon, specifically the Blue Moon MK2
List_of_crewed_spacecraft
Natural satellite orbiting Earth
soft land a spacecraft on the Moon, following the Soviet Union and United States in the 1960s, and China in 2013. Notably, Japan's spacecraft, the Smart
Moon
Photograph of Earth by Reid Wiseman
hemisphere. It was captured during the first leg of the spacecraft's outbound journey toward the Moon. It and a preceding lower-exposure snapshot by Wiseman
Hello,_World_(photograph)
1959 Soviet uncrewed space mission to impact the surface of the Moon
Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon, E-1 No.7. It was the first spacecraft to touch the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made
Luna_2
Mirrors for measuring Earth–Moon distance
Private Robotic Spacecraft Attempt at Moon Landing". NASA. Retrieved 12 April 2019. Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crash site spotted on moon, 15 May 2019
List of retroreflectors on the Moon
List_of_retroreflectors_on_the_Moon
First spacecraft to land on Titan
Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the farthest landing from Earth a spacecraft has ever made. The probe was named after
Huygens_(spacecraft)
NASA orbiter mission to the Moon (2011–2012)
high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. The two small spacecraft, GRAIL A (Ebb) and GRAIL B (Flow), were launched
GRAIL
Programs by the Soviet Union to land humans on the Moon
LK-1 spacecraft. Later, Chelomei also proposed a Moon landing program with a super-heavy UR-700 rocket, an LK-700 lunar lander, and an LK-3 spacecraft. The
Soviet_crewed_lunar_programs
NASA space probe launched in 1977
(Uranus and Neptune). The only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giant planets, it was the third of five spacecraft to achieve Solar escape velocity
Voyager_2
Fourth crewed Moon landing
feathers to the Moon in recognition of the crew's service in the Air Force. Also part of the spacecraft were a Launch Escape System and a Spacecraft-Lunar Module
Apollo_15
Lunar lander designed for human spaceflight
NASA's Artemis program Boeing Lunar Lander, proposed by Boeing Blue Moon, proposed by Blue Origin Lockheed Martin Lunar Lander, proposed by Lockheed Martin
Lunar_module
Fifth crewed Moon landing
en route to the Moon. These culminated with a problem with the spacecraft's main engine that resulted in a six-hour delay in the Moon landing as NASA
Apollo_16
Unmanned robotic spacecraft
spacecraft designed to explore outer space and transmit scientific data back to Earth. Space probes are used to investigate the Moon, planets, moons,
Space_probe
Type of rocket engine which uses liquid fuel stored at very low temperatures
Atlas-Centaur and were one of the main factors of NASA's success in reaching the Moon by the Saturn V rocket. Rocket engines burning cryogenic propellants remain
Cryogenic_rocket_engine
Lunar lander used for Apollo 11
impact on the Moon's surface during an orbit decay is unknown. Studies of Eagle's estimated orbital trajectory have suggested that the spacecraft may still
Lunar_Module_Eagle
Artemis program crewed spacecraft
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used by NASA for the Artemis lunar exploration program. It consists of
Orion_(spacecraft)
2022 uncrewed Moon-orbiting NASA mission
Moon and demonstrate technologies and business approaches needed for future scientific studies, including exploration of Mars. The Orion spacecraft for
Artemis_I
First crewed space mission to orbit the Moon
crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times
Apollo_8
Innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter
camera on board Pioneer 11 took the only good image of the moon obtained by either spacecraft, showing its north polar region and its yellow tint. Close-up
Io_(moon)
Photograph of Earth taken by Apollo 17 crew
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by one of the astronauts aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon. Viewed
The_Blue_Marble
1901 novel by H. G. Wells
From the Earth to the Moon in 1865, which used a cannon shot to launch a spacecraft with a human crew, and the sequel Around the Moon in 1869 about the lunar
The_First_Men_in_the_Moon
listing of spacecraft that achieved an extraterrestrial orbit. The first artificial object to orbit the sun is the Luna 1. The spacecraft was originally
List of extraterrestrial orbiters
List_of_extraterrestrial_orbiters
Lunar landing mission by Japanese ispace
Exploration Program EQUULEUS Hiten (spacecraft) OMOTENASHI SELENE Smart Lander for Investigating Moon List of missions to the Moon Lunar Flashlight (launched as
Hakuto-R_Mission_1
Missions to the Moon
until the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon was made by the CNSA robotic spacecraft Chang'e 4 in early 2019, which successfully deployed
Exploration_of_the_Moon
Indian lunar mission (2019–Present)
Quote: "India's Moon Mission Continues Despite Apparent Lander Crash". "India's Vikram Spacecraft Apparently Crash – Lands on Moon". planetary.org. Archived
Chandrayaan-2
Moon, Lunaria One, an Australian organization, planned to send plants such as resurrection grass with the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet 2 to the Moon in
List of species that have landed on the Moon
List_of_species_that_have_landed_on_the_Moon
Palestinian-American electrical and computer engineer lead NASA Mars helicopter
projects, including the development of Blue Moon, a lunar lander designed to transport payloads to the surface of the Moon, and New Glenn, a heavy-lift launch
Loay_Elbasyouni
Indian lunar mission (2023–Present)
(LOI) on 5 August, successfully placing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into an orbit around the Moon. The LOI operation was carried out from the ISRO Telemetry
Chandrayaan-3
NASA space probe launched in 1977
provide detailed images of their moons. As part of the Voyager program and like its sister craft Voyager 2, the spacecraft's extended mission is to locate
Voyager_1
Mission to Saturn (1997–2017)
Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini was
Cassini–Huygens
Lunar research program (2004–present)
The second phase is ongoing[when?], and incorporates spacecraft capable of soft-landing on the Moon and deploying lunar rovers. Chang'e 3, launched on 2
Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program
Vehicle that travels on the Moon's surface
lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program. The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet
Lunar_rover
2014 Swedish film
interplanetary spacecraft leaving Earth's orbit, carrying space colonists on their way to another planet or moon. Other than Earth's Moon, no other body
Wanderers_(2014_film)
Chinese lunar communications satellite
position in orbit or on the surface of the Moon with high accuracy. There are three scientific payloads on the spacecraft: Grid-based Energetic Neutral Atom imager
Queqiao-2
American astronaut (born 1930)
Module Eagle. The combined spacecraft then headed for the Moon, while the S-IVB stage continued on a trajectory past the Moon. On July 19 at 17:21:50 UTC
Buzz_Aldrin
China crewed lunar surface lander
lǎn yuè; lit. 'embracing the Moon'), known during early development as the China crewed lunar surface lander, is a spacecraft under development by the China
Lanyue
US spacecraft and robotics company
Honeybee Robotics, LLC is an American subsidiary of Blue Origin that builds advanced spacecraft, robotic rovers, and other technologies for the exploration
Honeybee_Robotics
company's IM-1 Odysseus spacecraft in 2024. NASA's Lunar Trailblazer aimed to aid in the understanding of lunar water and the Moon's water cycle. The mission
2025_in_spaceflight
Photograph of Earth by Voyager 1
provide detailed images of the two largest planets and their major moons. The spacecraft, still traveling at 64,000 km/h (40,000 mph), is the most distant
Pale_Blue_Dot
NASA satellite to test the Lunar Gateway orbit
after which the CAPSTONE spacecraft was deployed on its journey to the Moon. On 5 July 2022, NASA lost contact with the spacecraft shortly after separation
CAPSTONE
Larger of the two moons of Mars
create drag on the moon and therefore cause it to spiral inward. The density of Phobos has now been directly measured by spacecraft to be 1.887 g/cm3 (0
Phobos_(moon)
NASA spacecraft (2006–present)
2006, it became the first spacecraft to perform a flyby study and capture high-resolution photographs of Pluto and its moons during its encounter. It was
New_Horizons
Indian Lunar exploration programme
Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon on 23 August 2023, making India the first nation to successfully land a spacecraft in the lunar south pole region
Chandrayaan_programme
Second crewed mission to orbit the Moon
had incomplete information regarding the Moon's mass concentrations, which might throw off the spacecraft's trajectory. Lieutenant General Sam Phillips
Apollo_10
Extreme benchmarks set off Earth by astronauts, launchers and probes
Apollo, and Space Shuttle, and launched from the Moon aboard the Apollo Lunar Module Ascent Stage 3 spacecraft Walter Schirra (USA) – launched aboard a Mercury
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Former NASA Lunar mission
ended on April 18, 2014, when the spacecraft's controllers intentionally crashed LADEE into the far side of the Moon, which was later determined to be
LADEE
Space probe
uncrewed Soviet spacecraft intended to land on the Moon as part of the Luna programme. It was intended to become the first spacecraft to achieve a soft
Luna_5
1969 Soviet space probe
after launch and was then sent toward the Moon. After a mid-course correction the day after launch, the spacecraft entered lunar orbit at 10:00 UT on 17 July
Luna_15
Chinese lunar exploration mission
The spacecraft pair launched on 23 November 2020, atop a Long March 5 rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island, landed on the Moon on 1
Chang'e_5
Lunar landing mission by Japanese ispace
Space. Samantha Mathewson (2 June 2025). "Private Japanese spacecraft aims to land in the moon's 'Sea of Cold' this week". Space. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
Hakuto-R_Mission_2
American astronaut (1930–2012)
first people to land on the Moon, and the next day they spent two and a half hours outside the Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft while Michael Collins remained
Neil_Armstrong
American privately held space exploration company
robotic spacecraft on the Moon and deliver data, images and video from the landing site and from 500 meters away from its landing site. Moon Express signed
Moon_Express
Japanese lunar lander (2023–2024)
became the fifth nation to successfully soft land an operational spacecraft on the Moon, after the Soviet Union, United States, China, and India. Although
Smart Lander for Investigating Moon
Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon
Astronauts from NASA's Apollo program
the Moon during the Apollo 13 mission, but the lunar landing was aborted following an explosion in the spacecraft service module en route to the Moon. Haise
List_of_Apollo_astronauts
Soviet space probe
the lunar surface, at 07:43 UT on 21 September, the spacecraft's upper stage lifted off from the Moon. The lower stage of Luna 16 remained on the lunar
Luna_16
Independent confirmations of Apollo Moon landings
the way to the Moon and back. A group at Kettering Grammar School, using simple radio equipment, monitored Soviet and U.S. spacecraft and calculated their
Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings
Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings
United Arab Emirates Lunar Mission
Hakuto-R lander was lost. The ispace team confirmed that the spacecraft had crashed into the Moon and was thus destroyed. Another rover named Rashid 2 was
Emirates_Lunar_Mission
1968 Soviet spaceflight, first lunar mission to carry animals
a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. In September 1968 Zond 5 travelled around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and became the first Moon mission
Zond_5
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mocháin (see Mohan).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Moyon in La Manche, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Modius (from Latin modus ‘measure’) + the locative suffix -o (genitive -onis).English : nickname from Anglo-Norman French moun ‘monk’ (see Monk).Cornish : nickname for a slender person, from Cornish mon ‘thin’.Korean : variant of Mun.
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : variant spelling of Noone.English, Scottish, and Dutch : from Middle English none, Middle Dutch noene ‘noon’, the time of brightest sunshine, hence perhaps nickname for a bright and cheerful person or for someone born at that time of day. The word is derived from Latin nona (hora) ‘ninth (hour)’, i.e. about three o’clock. The change in meaning of the vocabulary word from mid-afternoon to midday, probably occurred as a result of monastic meal times being brought forward.
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Tamil
Blue, Enchanting Moon
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Blue, Enchanting Moon
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English
English : variant of Munn, Mann, or possibly Moon.German : probably a variant of Mann.Catalan : from the Marian name Mare de Déu del Món, from Girona province. This name is very common in northern Catalonia.Asturian-Leonese or Aragonese : habitational name from Mon in Asturies, or from El Mon in Uesca, Aragón.Chinese : variant of Wan 1.
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English (Leicestershire)
English (Leicestershire) : variant of Towne.
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Hindu
Blue, Enchanting Moon
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Tamil
The Moon
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English
English : variant spelling of Bligh.
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Australian, Irish
From Doon
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Hindu
The Moon
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Tamil
Blue, Enchanting Moon
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Tamil
Moon; Blue Coloured
Female
Yiddish
(בְּלוּמֶע) Variant form of Yiddish Bluma, BLUME means "flower."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : generally a fairly recent Americanized form of German Blau or the French cognate Bleu.
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Gujarati, Indian, Kannada, Kashmiri
Moon
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Hindu, Indian
Moon Light; Blue Sky; Moon; Vanilla
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Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Slave; Myth Name; Letters
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Australian, Finnish
Plenty; Moon
Boy/Male
Muslim
Sword blade
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