There is even evidence that
joseph smith thought the moon had people living on it — in 1892 a mormon article was written which
says: «The Inhabitants of the Moon,» recorded Huntington: «As far back as 1837, I know that he [Smith]
said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they live to a greater age than we do — that they live generally to near the age of a 1000 years.