Аннотация:The paper considers the philosophical, historical, practical, and futurological aspects of the wholecomplex of relationships between human and humanity with the Moon from being an object of cognition,exploration, usage, and development to total colonization in the paradigm of the global future andexpansion into outer space. A “comprehensive” definition of the concept of “Moon exploration” isgiven. The article provides periodization and a brief description of the history and prospects of theexploration of the Moon in the context of evolution of goals, concepts, projects, and technologies. Theconcept of total exploration and colonization of the Moon is developed, which includes: a generalmodel of the exploration process; a general super global project covering many individual projects;environmentally friendly technologies and projects (their general classification and examples). Themain conclusions are formulated.