Refreshing the Artemis website,
asi.org - since
the transfer of membership services from the Artemis Society to the new
Moon Society in July, 2000, the asi.org site has suffered from lack of
attention. Many links are broken and need correction, replacement, or
renewal.
The links between the asi.org and moonsociety.org websites are not as
thorough as they should be.
We want to create linkage in both directions between articles in the
Artemis Data Book and www.lunarpedia.org
We also need more thorough linkage between the asi.org Moon Miners'
Manifesto archives and the Moon Society MMM archives.
Peter
Kokh is working on side by side, current and proposed revisions, page
by page. When finished, these proposed revisions will be presented to
The Lunar Resources Company, the proprietary owners of asi.org
Lunar Lander Fuel Tank
Proposal: At the
ICEUM
- International Conference on the
Exploration and
Utilization
of the Moon, in Orlando, Florida at the end of October, Board Member,
and Director of Project Development David A. Dunlop suggested that all
parties landing anything on the Moon design the fuel tanks involved for
reusability. Once we start producing oxygen on the Moon, whether for
use as rocket fuel to return to Earth of for other uses, we are going
to need a lot of surplus tanks. A NASA person involved with the Altair
lander team said the idea had merit and deserved serious consideration,
as did David Bienhoff of Boeing, who had last year demonstrated that
NASA could land 60% more on the Moon if each Moon-bound rocket were
refueled in Earth orbit. Reusability of fuel tanks was one of the ideas
floated in the series of articles "Thinking Outside the Mass Fraction
Box" that ran in MMM #s 209, 210, and 211.
MMM-India Quarterly.
We are hoping to introduce a new special quarterly publication for the
space community in India. India has more English speakers than the
United States, publishes more books in English than any other country,
and now, as of November 10th, has its probe Chandrayaan-1 in lunar
orbit, soon to begin its science mission.
This publication
will be a free access pdf file available to our members and friends
everywhere, not just in India. This is a high priority project as
timing is everything.
Note the silhouette of India behind the words "Moon
Miners' Manifesto"
The use of an "india" subdomain (in place of www) is a proposal under
discussion
