Editing Tycho (lunar crater) (section)

== Fictional references ==
* There is a chapter entitled "Tycho" in Jules Verne's ''[[Around the Moon]]'' ([[Around the Moon|''Autour de la Lune'']], 1870) which describes the crater and its ray system.

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein|R.A. Heinlein]]'s 1940 short story "[[Blowups Happen]]", a character speculates that Tycho may have been the location of a sentient race's main atomic power plant, in a past time when the Moon was still habitable—and that the plant exploded, causing the craters, the rays spreading from Tycho, and the death of all life on the Moon.

* [[Clifford Simak|C.D. Simak]] set his 1961 novelette ''The Trouble with Tycho'', at the lunar crater. He also postulated that the crater's rays were composed of volcanic glass ([[tektites]]) akin to a theory postulated by NASA researchers Dean Chapman and John O'Keefe in the 1970s.

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]]'s 1966 book ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'', Tycho is the location of the lunar habitat named "Tycho Under".

* Tycho was the location of the [[Tycho Magnetic Anomaly]] (TMA-1), and subsequent excavation of an alien monolith, in [[2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']], the seminal 1968 science-fiction film by [[Stanley Kubrick]] and book by [[Arthur C. Clarke]].

* In the 1987 film ''[[Can't Buy Me Love (film)|Can't Buy Me Love]]'', Cindy notices Tycho while looking through a telescope on her final "contractual" date with Ronny in the Airplane Graveyard.

* It also serves as the location of "Tycho City" in the 1996 film ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]''; a lunar metropolis by the 24th&nbsp;century.

* In [[Jack Williamson]]'s 2001 novel ''Terraforming Earth'', the crater is utilized for "Tycho Base", a self-sustaining, robot-controlled installation aimed at restoring life to the (dead) planet Earth after an asteroid sterilizes the biosphere.

* In the 2019 film [[Ad Astra (film)|''Ad Astra'']], the Moon base is situated in the Tycho crater. This is Roy's first stop on his journey to Mars.

* Crater Tycho figures prominently in the [[Matthew Looney]] and [[Maria Looney]] series of children's books set on the Moon, authored by [[Jerome Beatty]].

* In [[Roger Macbride Allen|R.M. Allen's]] ''Hunted Earth'' novels, the 'naked purples' own a former penal colony in or around Tycho crater known as "Tycho Purple Penal" (see ''[[The Ring of Charon]]'').

* Tycho is referenced in the band [[Cojum Dip]]'s song, Waltz in E&nbsp;Major, Op.&nbsp;15 "Moon Waltz".

* Tycho is referenced in the 2022 game ''[[Horizon Forbidden West]]'' as the site of a Helium-3 mine.