By Peter Kokh, President As a new feature in the Moon Society’s recent bylaws revision of February 6th, as reported in MMM #212, February 2008, Moon Society Journal Section (p.9), this year, on the third Wednesday evening of the month after Society elections are finalized, we will launch our first Annual Membership Meeting. Save Wednesday […]
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Solar Power Beaming Demonstration Unit Makes Debut
06-14-2008. Our Solar Power Beaming Demonstration was finished in time to make its debut at the International Space Development Conference in Washington DC on Saturday, May 31st. Photos from the conference: Assembled Unit – Paul Blase, who put the unit together, stands at the side Society Leaders in front of the unit, left to right: […]
Reauthorizing the Vision for Space Exploration
On May 7, 2008, George Whitesides, Executive Director of our affiliate organization, The National Space Society, read a prepared comprehensive and in depth presentation on the future goals of the American Space Program before Congress. His audience was a US Senate Subcommittee – the Subcommittee on Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences Committee on Commerce, Science, […]
Growing Plants on the Moon
A cool article Thursday April 17th titled Plants thrive on Moon rock diet. In short the scientists took crushed anorthosite a type of rock similar to rock on lunar surface and planted marigolds in it. The marigolds didn’t do very well in the plain anorthosite. But in the anorthosite that they added bacteria to, the […]
Remembering Arthur C. Clarke
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke I grew up in the 1950s as an avid reader of science fiction. Right from the beginning, I took such a liking to stories by Arthur C. Clarke that I bought everything he put out. Unlike many others, who fantasized about things impossible, Clarke always wrote with his slide rule in hand (prehistoric […]
Railroading on Moon and Mars
by Peter Kokh Most of us are familiar with the critical role that railroads played in opening up the American West. The story was repeated, with some differences, in Canada and Australia. And with the railroads came the benefits of the Industrial Revolution. The railroads extended communications (telegraph) and by providing access to the territory […]
Introducing our Table Top Solar Power Beaming Demonstrator Project
The National Space Security Office report, released October 10, 2007, that concluded that erecting a Solar Power Satellite network in GEO could provide the only pathway to true energy independence for the United States, further suggesting that the only affordable way to do that would be to use construction materials made on the Moon, or […]
Moon Society Progress Report & Update – Feb 2008
Link: http://strabo.moonsociety.org/reports/society_update_02-15-2008.html A fresh Moon Society Progress Report & Update is now online, both on the Moon Society front page center column society news area and in the Reports section There are handy links to anchors for each section of the report, as it is lengthy, and the table at the top will allow you […]
Former MMM Contributor Stan Love on Atlantis Mission
Stan Love, a member of the Seattle LUnar Group Studies (SLuGs), an activity group of the Seattle L5 Society back in the late 1980s, will be aboard Atlantis, scheduled for the delayed STS-122 mission to the International Space Station on February 7th. In the 1988-1990 time frame, members of the Seattle L5 Chapter of NSS […]
Moon Society hosts “Cislunar Econopshere Track” at ISDC 2012
From the desk of Moon Society President Ken Murphy Moon Track at ISDC 2012 Washington DC – “Unmitigated Success!” Sunday, May 28, 2012 was The Moon Society’s time to shine. Our track was scheduled against the Student Track (presentations from the ISSDC), the Transhumanism & Space Exploration track, the Living in Space track organized by […]