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Mark Holborn has hurled himself at the universe with Sun and Moon, which tells the story of the human need to comprehend the universe, from the 5000-year-old Knowth Passage Tomb in County Meath, Ireland, (probably aligned with the sunrise and sunset during the spring and autumn equinoxes) to an awe-inspiring shot of the Endeavour crater on Mars, taken by NASA’s rover Opportunity in 2014.

But it is Holborn’s abiding devotion to lunar ephemera that distinguishes this volume: from James Nasmyth and James Carpenter’s handmade plaster models of the lunar surface to images from the NASA GRAIL mission in 2016, reflecting the gravitational perturbations generated when an impact 3.8 billion years ago produced the Moon’s Orientale basin. These and other curios make Sun and Moon a heavyweight delight.

A touring show on rocket science and space flight, with artefacts from the US and Soviet Union.

Award-winner Todd Douglas Miller has crafted a narrator-free account of the Apollo 11 mission, using previously unseen footage and a soundtrack played on period synthesisers. It is easy to see why it won an award at Sundance Film Festival. It is a masterpiece.

Performances, lectures, films, food markets, gardens… Moon Festival promises to bring a little calm and wonder to the UK’s frenetic capital, as it celebrates not just Apollo 11, but the moon itself, “from the beginning of time to the unforeseeable future”.

To open this year’s BBC Proms, Canadian pianist Zosha Di Castri was commissioned to create a new work, paying homage to the Apollo 11 mission. Using a text by Chinese-British novelist Xiaolu Guo, Long Is the Journey – Short Is the Memory evokes the moon across human history.

Curators at London’s Royal Observatory Greenwich are coinciding this book with The Moon Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum nearby, which runs from 19 July. Accompanied by 180 images, The Moon shows how art and science meet to explore our favourite untapped resource.