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Vice-President Charles F. Radley, who had held that office with distinction for three years, resigned to concentrate on other things. We thanked him for his many accomplishments during this period. As the election ballot had already gone out, we decided to fill the balance of his current term, ending in 2011, with an appointment. Please welcome Jason Tuttle of Lenoir City, Tennessee (near Knoxville.) We were all impressed with his abilities and record of achievement to date. He would be eligible for election to a full two-year term next year.June 2nd Meeting
The President reported on our presence at the 2010 International Space Development Conference in Chicago over the Memorial Day Weekend.
We had the most substantial exhibit yet in the ten year history of the Society, beefed up by major exhibit items from the Lunar Reclamation Society, our partner NSS chapter in nearby Milwaukee, including the modular lunar homestead exhibit, two fresh "regolith impressionism" paintings, a "Living Wall" exhibit by James Schroeter and a moonbase exhibit put together by Director Fred Hills of Herndon, VA, the LRS "Gravity Bricks" (L>R Moon, Earth, Mars) and a lunar rover one could sit in, by member Tom Jaquish of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Dave Heck (Moon Society St. Louis & Boeing St. Louis) gave a great presentation on our concept of an International Lunar Research Park, beefed up by his first hand familiarity with the world's largest international research park in Sheffield, UK. Former Director Peter Schubert gave a presentation on how we could most efficiently derive all the elements we needed to build solar power satellites from moondust. Dave Dunlop, chair of the Moon Society track, introduced many speakers and presented the University of Lunar Project award to Dallas Bienhoff of Boeing for his concept and studies of orbital refueling systems.Society President Peter Kokh did not present this year, but manned the exhibit meeting many conference attendees, and also spending some time with key persons.A Lunar Frontier - Things are Looking Better than Ever!This is the attitude we wanted to portray and we had refreshed our Exhibit "message" and handout "flyers" accordingly.Beefing up our renewal offer (pay for two years and get third year free) For last year's event in Orlando, the National Space Society had produced a thousand CDs containing the first 20 years of Moon Miners' Manifesto articles. In Chicago, they gave us the balance of undistributed CDs, about 130, and at the June 2nd meeting, we decided to give these to whomever renewed at this 3 for 2 rate, "sweetening the pot," so to speak.
Proposed Collaborations
- promoting a NASA demonstration of beaming laser power from ground to space for propulsion of the new solar sail to fastest ever speed, to catch up with the Voyagers in a few years, bound for interstellar space.
The next Management Committee Meeting, an official Board Meeting, will be on June 16th
If you would like the Management Committee to consider a new initiative or idea, contact president@moonsociety.org
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The time is Time: 9-11 pm ET, 8-10 pm CT, 7-9 pm MT, 6-8 pm PT Wed = 2-4 am Thurs UT (GMT)
Town Meetings will be held the week before the Board Meetings in February, May, and November - that is, three times a year - There is a calendar listing Society Meetings at the bottom of the Conferences 2010 page. You may download this one-page ready-to-print calendar with several artwork options from the bottom of our Downloads Page.
The ballots are out. They have been circulated both in MMM (May issue) and by email.top
While we do not have any contested positions this year, our volunteers deserve a vote of confidence.
Please do vote!
Ballots must be returned by August 1st to be counted
Ballots can be emailed to secretary@moonsociety.org
Or mailed to The Moon Society, P.O. Box 940825, Plano, TX 75094-082
All "M3IQ" issues may be freely downloaded from this addressMMM Themes Collections - http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_themes/
http://www.moonsociety.org/india/mmm-india/
The following issues have been published:Introducing new, special "Vector" pages:
We are working on the following
- Mars 1 & 2
- Eden on the Moon 1 & 2 (environmental themes)
- Select Editorials
- Asteroids
- Tourism
- Research
These Theme Issues are, like the Classics, free access pdf files, no member username and password needed. See download address above.
- The Lunar Economy (Exo-economics)
- At Home on the Moon
These publications will appear as we find time to put them together. A fringe benefit of organizing all past articles by theme, is that it can serve as preparation for an eventual “MMM the Book.” That is a project title, not the book title, which will be determined later.
Members and visitors may wonder what the Moon Society stance may be on interrelated space issues. The following pages are now online:
Yet to come:
- http://www.moonsociety.org/mars/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/asteroids/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/tourism/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/research/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/art/ - the idea behind this page is to help members and visitors visualize the possibilities!
- http://www.moonsociety.org/astronomy/
- others?
We hope to make these pages accessible by direct link from our homepage. The current idea is to add a "Vectors Menu" just below the "Destinations Menu" in the right hand column of our homepage.
If you have a "high frontier" tale in you, work it out and email it to moonbeams@moonsociety.org2010 1-sheet Meetings Calendars have been published, in 7 artwork versions, 4 horizontal, 3 vertical
To download the first four issues, go to the archive site. Moonbeams issues are freely available in pdf file format, and members and visitors are welcome to circulate them freely and widely. The purpose is to provide fictional illustrations of what life could like on the Lunar Frontier and elsewhere within the Solar System.
Just print on card stock and frame
A new issues of Selenology has been published.
The Fall 2009 issue of this newsletter from our affiliate The American Lunar Society can be downloaded from this directory, using your Moon Society member username and password - http://moonsociety.org/members/selenology/
An updated look at chapter events.An Outpost consists of one or more members in a local community that serve as (a) local contact(s) for area members and prospective members of the Society, and which have not yet met the qualifications to be given a chapter charter. To establish an outpost and become a local contact person for the society, write the Chapters Coordinator. There is no reason why a prospective campus chapter cannot start as an outpost, one or more not-yet-organized members.
Bill White is a new member who joined the Society last October. But already, he has made an outstanding contribution. His science-fiction novel, Platinum Moon, has just been released. This is the first (so far as we know) novel that takes the "sea change" in NASA's direction called for by President Obama, as the prevailing situation for the action in his novel.
You will find a synopsis on the linked page above, as well as ordering information. The novel is available both in paperback and in a number of electronic formats, and the first third can be downloaded free, to whet the appetite!
We congratulate Bill for this timely achievement! He has previously published other books (see Amazon.com "Bill White"
Bill lives in Downers Grove, IL, a Chicago suburb.
This is the first Member Highlight published in Frontlines. We will print more from time to time. The Society is unusually blessed with talent!
LATIN AMERICAEvents: Annual Events, ISDCs and more.
Puerto RicoINDIA
The Moon Society is cosponsoring the Puerto Rico Space Congress to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 23-27, 2010. The conference is shaping up nicely and looks to be an exceptional one.Mexico
Mexico has finally approved its own Space Agency, AEXA, and is deciding on a headquarters site. The government and has picked a launch site in Quintanoo Roo State in the Yucatan Peninsula on the Carri bean Coast just north of Belize.CHILE - Moon/Mars Atacama Research Station - Right now, in the aftermath of Chile's recent Earthquake, focus is elsewhere, but behind the scened, organizational activities of a Chilean Center of Excellence continue.
The state of Jalisco (Guadalajara) is bidding for the AEXA HQ site, and is considering a space theme park north of Guadalajara that will include a lunar analog facility open to tourists; the MexLunarHab. We have been working in Mexico through our agent, Jesus Raygoza.
If the Moon Society's role in Chile is to expand beyond a merely advisory one, we need to develop a family of chapters within Chile to play a supporting role at MMARS. And we need to clone the Society "in Espaņol."Our decision to spin off a Spanish Language Moon Society website and to create a number of papers and flyers in Spanish, should help promote this effort, as well as to promote the creation of Spanish-language Moon Society chapters in Mexico and in Chile, the two nations in which our efforts are currently concentrated.MMM-Spanish Quarterly Protect Update - June 7, 2010"Manifiesto Mineros de la Luna Trimestral" - proposed title, translation double checkedDave Dunlop, Moon Society Director of Project Development and Society President Pater Kokh, have worked on a plan to advance this project. Peter will1) solicit articles from known Spanish-speaking colleagues,1) Solicit articles from known Spanish-speaking colleagues,This project needs not just a special Editor but an Editorial Team with members from Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and other interested countries, including someone from the Spanish speaking community in the U.S.
2) Have Goggle translate existing and new MMM articles
3) Provide or suggest some illustrations
4) Perhaps a fresh appeal to members for a volunteer editor
5) Consult with NSS, who might want to cosponsor such a publication
In the meantime, we will address the items listed above.
Apropos, the Puerto Rico Space Congress, which the Society is cosponsoring, is October 24-27.
And the 6th Space Conference of the Americas (CEA) will be in the city of Pachuca, the capital of the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. November 15-19, 2010.
It would be great to have the first MMM-Espaņol-Quarterly edition ready for both events, but that seems an improbable goal at the moment (which, of course means that we will give it a college try.)
See MMM-India Quarterly - a free access pdf file newsletter
MMM-India Quarterly #6 was published April 1st. M3IQ #7 is set for July, #8 for October.
The Newly announced Moon Society India is moving swiftly to come into its own. Indian writers have contributed a major portion of the 5th issue of Moon Miners' Manifesto - India Quarterly - "M3IQ" as we have come to call it.Eventually, M3IQ will either become an all-India publication or be replaced with a new publication put together inside India. This is as it should be, and we in the Moon Society look forward to the Moon Society India organization coming into its own, with pride and satisfaction.(2) From Moon Society India leader Pradeep Mohandas
The Moon Society India is in the final stage of incorporation, and had a major presence at the SEDS India Conference April 11-12, in Vellore, 113 km west of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state, and 150 km east of Bangalore. Together with the Moon Society (International), they have started a Book Drive to collect (from US/Canadian members) books on Space, the Moon, even Mars, that we no longer need to keep in our personal libraries. For information, contact president@moonsociety.org. We hope to collect a bunch at ISDC 2010 in Chicago at the end of the month.
Those interested in helping create Moon Society chapters in India should contact
Contact: moonsocietyindia@gmail.com
SPINNING OFF A Spanish version of the Moon Society Website, and a Spanish language edition of Moon Miners' Manifesto - "Sociedad Lunar" y "Manifesto de Mineros de Luna" (the editor's amateur translation attempt.)
The Moon Society Management Committee has given its support to this proposal. But more than a vote is needed. We do not have the team to pursue this goal. Instead, we must recruit such a team. We have recruited Jesus Raygoza of Mexico City who has both a wide knowledge of and interest in Space affairs and is fluent in both English and Spanish to start the process as soon as we send him a list of web pages and documents needing translation. Jesus has been working in Mexico build a Moon Society presence there as well as campaign for the creation of AEXA, a Mexican Space Agency with a small but effective budget. (Espaņol)SWEDEN
We are looking for proficient English to Spanish Translators, webmasters, and editors.
On December 17th, we put up a temporary Spanish Homepage placeholder
The Society is involved in Mexico and Puerto Rico, as well as Chile, it makes sense to prepare outreach materials for Spanish speaking countries, including the growing Spanish speaking population within the United States. The United States is now the 2nd largest Spanish Speaking Country in the Western Hemisphere (after Mexico), and soon worldwide (eclipsing Spain).
If you can help in any way or point us in the right direction, please contact us
Write: president@moonsociety.org
Subject line: Spanish
Subject line: Spanish "at large chapter" in the USA
Subject line: Mexico
Subject line: other Spanish-speaking nations
Subject line: etc.
The member-organized Moon-Mine Project in central Sweden which we have been support, is encountering problems with the owner of the property, and Niklas Jarvstrat, project organizer is becoming discouraged. He may move to Oxford, England, UK and will look into usable abandoned mine sites in that country.
The Moon Society is looking more International every day.
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This time the dates are for the weekend before Memorial Day WeekendJuly 26 - August 7th, 2011 - we are considering a number of contests and competitions
More information to follow.