Moondust

The Regolith Simulant Team has been busy busting rocks to make "moondust". ❋ Fred Kiesche (2009)

Inside, caked and matted with "moondust," as everyone called it, stood double rows of armored Humvees, armed GMVs (ground mobility vehicles), and Toyota Land Cruisers — the essential elements of a new kind of convoy warfare, in which Special Ops was adapting tactics more from the Mad Max style of the Eritrean and Chadian guerrillas of recent decades than from the lumbering tank armies of the passing Industrial Age. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was dark and cold, and the pouring rain had turned the "moondust" on the base into deep, sticky gumbo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was a even a little display that let you smell simulated moondust; I agree with what the astronauts said about the traces that were left on their spacesuits: It smells a little like spent gunpowder! ❋ Zoe P. Strassfield (2012)

The actual lunar spacesuits with traces of moondust still on them give me the chills. ❋ Zoe P. Strassfield (2011)

Boots and flags on moondust just isn't on the list of what needs to be done right now and W knew this all along - VSE was just another sound-bite half-baked project that has been starved for funding since its inception. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her face and costume were powdered with yellow moondust, but it seemed to have no affect on her. ❋ Lou Anders (2010)

“A new type of 'lunar concrete,' made by mixing moondust and carbon nanotubes, could be used to construct buildings, solar power arrays, and monolithic telescopes on the moon,” National Geographic reports. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For several days after I listened to that episode, there was nothing in the world that I wanted more than a bag of salted peanuts, something that would have cost me no more than a few pennies on dry land but out here was as unobtainable as moondust. ❋ Roz Savage (2009)

[Dylan]: "Want me to crush the [tabs] for lines?" Katie: "Nah [boo], I've already got the moondust made." ❋ Arienette Lynn (2009)

Janice snorted some [Miami Moondust] she saved from her [liaison] with Jeff the night before. Jim loved [felching], but there was something about Miami Moondust that always took the edge off the morning after. ❋ HoxhaWasAPacifist (2023)