This page has the official whitepapers of the Moon Society.
MOON SOCIETY WHITEPAPERS
2004.03.15 – The Moon: Why and How we Should Return
2004.03.15 – The Hubble Space Telescope and the Future of Space-Based Astronomy in Light of a Return to the Moon
2007.12.23 – Starting a Dialog Between the Environmental and Space Communities (pdf)
2008.03.28 – Promoting a vision of a network of Solar Power Satellites largely built from Lunar Materials
2009.01.09 – A Third Generation American Space Program: Space Policy 3.0 – by David A. Dunlop This paper has been submitted as input to the Obama-Biden Transition Team on Space.
Here you will find links to papers published online, including submissions too long or too technical to be published in Moon Miners’ Manifesto, papers published by Moon Society “partner organizations” and “affiliates” and more.
MOON SOCIETY POSITION PAPERS
Moon Society Joins new Thirteen Member Space Solar Alliance for Future Energy (SSAFE)
Expanding on the Society’s Vision Statement: Solar Power Satellites Built with Lunar Materials
Moon Society opposition to any Congressional ban on spending for “humans to Mars” programs
The Moon Society’s role in The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE)
The Moon: Why and How we Should Return
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Future of Space-Based Astronomy in Light of a Return to the Moon
Moon Society and Space Exploration Alliance Call for “The Moon, Mars, and Beyond”
Position Papers by Affiliates, worth study
Space Renaissance Initiative – Aldrin-Hsu paper [pdf format]
AphaTown – ISS Authority – Space Frontier Foundation [pdf format – published in MMM]
Members interested in helping draft position papers should email us.
Papers under consideration include the following topics:
- Observatories on the Moon – note that 2009 is International Astronomy Year
- The Moon and Tourism
- Lunar Property Rights
- The Moon’s role in Planetary Defense
- and more
PAPERS SUBMITTED BY MEMBERS
Outreach about the Moon by Ken Murphy
Space Education Initiative by Jim Barnard
Interview of Peter Kokh by Clark Lindsey of HobbySpace on Moonbase exercise in Utah (external link)
Interview of Peter Kokh by Astrid Dahm for an article on the Moon in the German science magazine P.M.
LEAG 2007 Conference, Full Report by Larry J. Friesen
Space settlements, Property Rights, and International Law: Could a Lunar Settlement Claim the Lunar Real Estate it Needs to Survive? by Alan B. Wasser and Douglas Jobes
A Third Generation American Space Program: Space Policy 3.0 by David S. Dunlop
Introduciton to the forthcoming Science-Fiction novel “Lunar Pioneers” by Phi Harris
A National Park System on the Moon? A proposal to the American Lunar Society by Peter Kokh
The Lunar Flashbulb aka Lunar Lavatube Locator
More to be posted
ADDITIONAL MOON SOCIETY LINKS
Moon Miners’ Manifesto CLASSICS PDF Files
Artemis Project™ Reference Mission Overview (external link)
University of Luna Project Library Links Page
PowerPoint Presentations (3)
The Moonbase Exercise in Utah Options for a Lunar Analog Research Station Human Migration Triway into Space
Moon Society Milwaukee (Lunar Reclamation Society) Research Reports
Lunar Agriculture Experiments – LUNAX
Lunar Painting Experiment – “Regolith Impressionism”
SELECT POSTS – MOON SOCIETY BLOG
(by Peter Kokh unless otherwise noted) in chronological order, oldest at the top, most recent at the bottom. The Solar System becomes a Gated Community
Of 8 Planets & 28 Worlds & Counting
Modular Construction within Shielded Megastructures
NASA has ended all funding for Biological “Advanced Life Support”
Usefulness of Terrestrial Lavatubes in a Lunar Analog Research Station Program
RAMADAS: “Yard” and Work site Canopies for Lunar Outposts
Railroading on the Moon? Why not!
The Human Expansion Triway into Space
EXTERNAL LINKS
Oregon L5 Society Papers
Lunar Base Research Team Papers (7)
Mars Instrument & Science Team Papers (4)
Lunar Reclamation Society –
NOTE: The Lunar Reclamation Society web site is currently offline, so the following papers have been republished on the Moon Society Milwaukee Outpost site at: http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_papers/
Papers (23)
(Of Special Interest)
THE LUNAR “HOSTEL” An Alternate Concept for First Beachhead and Secondary Outposts
PRINZTON: A Rille-Bottom Settlement for Three Thousand People
MUS/cle Strategy for Lunar Industrial Diversification
The “Frontier Builder”: an Earth-Moon Hotel Cruise Ship
Steps to Civilian Lunar Home Rule Authority
“Improving” the Moon, and the Developer’s Role
Illustrated Discussion of Moon / Mars Habitat Options
Beyond Our First Moonbase: The Future of Human Presence on the Moon (pdf file)
Beyond The Outpost Trap: Technologies Needed to Break Free
Assuring Mental Health Among Future Lunar Frontier Pioneers
A more complete and updated list is at this address
American Lunar Society Papers (12)
Geologic Processes on the Moon
Lunar Prospector and the Road to the Lunar Frontier
A Short Summary of the Findings of Lunar Prospector
Lunar Occultation’s: Theory and Method
Transient Lunar Phenomena – TLP
Lunar Farside Dome and Nearside Cone Project
National Space Society Position Papers
Reauthorizing the Vision for Space Exploration – Statement of NSS Executive Director George Whitesides presented before the Subcommittee on Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate Hearing on May 7, 2008
NSS Position Paper on Space Tourism
Why Space?: The NSS Rationale for Exploring and Settling the Endless Frontier
NSS Position Paper on Space and Molecular Nanotechnology
The Next Steps for Human Space Exploration (pdf)