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An update was given on the status of the Moon Mars Atacama Research Station Project: Funding is going through via the University of Antofagasta in northern Chile, and an expedition to pick out the site is in the works for March. This will involve a crew of 8, 4 from the University, 4 from the US including Chris McKay of NASA Ames, and Peter Kokh from the Moon Society.The next Management Committee Meeting will be on Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Moon Society India has indicated that they may be ready to take over Moon Miners' Manifesto -India Quarterly beginning with the scheduled April issue under a new name and with a new look. M3IQ #9 is scheduled for publication January 20th. However, the current M3IQ team is ready to continue until the India team is ready, should they not be able to put out the April issue.
Lavatube Skylight Explorer engineering competition. Onboard are The Moon Society, Lunar Reclamation Society, National Space Society (each contributing %500 in prize money) plus Open Luna Foundation, and SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.)We have contacted FIRST Robotics, the American Lunar Society, ExploreMars.org, MarsDrive, The Mars Foundation, and NASA-Glenn in Cleveland (preliminary contact.) We have yet to contact AIAA and the Space Grant Consortia network.The Lunar Solar Sail cubesat engineering competition is still in the definition stage. This is a complex project and we will be dividing it in phases to be run in succession.
If you would like the Management Committee to consider a new initiative or idea, contact president@moonsociety.orgThe next Board of Directors Meeting will be on Wednesday, February 16th, 20111
[The Board must decide all matters that involve modification of the ByLaws
and all matters that are specifically referred to the Board in the ByLaws
All other matters can be decided by the Management Committee which includes all Board Directors and all Officers]
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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.
SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
With SEDS in mind, Peter Kokh and Dave Dunlop will be putting to the Moon Society Board a proposal to amend the bylaws to create a new class of membership: student chapters, in which the student chapters, not its members, become members of the Moon Society. But SEDS students would have access to the electronic version of MMM for the duration of their membership in the SEDS chapter. After they graduate or move on, we would have an attractive "first year" membership registration offer for them. The details of this proposal are yet to be worked out, to minimize pitfalls of abuse and other problems.FIRST Robotics
Next year's SEDS SpaceVision Conference will be held in November, 2011 at the University of Colorado Boulder campus. The Moon Society plans to stay involved.Another group of existing student organizations that may be interconnected to the Moon Society in this fashion are the High School Level FIRST Robotics teams. [FIRST = For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology] Peter Kokh and Dave Dunlop are meeting with a local Rockford Robotics team leader January 1th.The National Space Society:
We are collaborating with NSS on several fronts:
- The NSS-Kalam Space Solar Power Initiative
- Engineering Competitions, Design and Art Contests, etc.
- Sharing MMM with several NSS Chapters
- Helping find speakers for the annual International Space Development Conference
MMM #242 January electronic version pdf file should be out by month's end.Special "Vector" pages:
The Fall issue of the American Lunar Society's Selenology Quarterly is now ready for download
Members can download MMM pdf files here and Selenology pdf files here (username password required for both) If you have no username and password, or have forgotten it, please contact us as soon as possible and we'll get you up and running
The 21st volume of the MMM Classics has been published,
collecting all the non-time sensitive articles from issues #201-210.
We maintain a minimum lag of three years from the current publication year,
in order to maintain the incentive to maintain membership in the Society.
All MMM Classics volumes, one per each publication year, can be freely downloaded (no username and password needed), in pdf format from http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_classics/
The MMM-India Quarterly #8 was published late in October. Issue #9 is scheduled for January 2011.
All "M3IQ" issues may be freely downloaded from this address
http://www.moonsociety.org/india/mmm-india/
MOONSCAPES first four issues have been published and sent to all current email addresses on file.
The fifth issue will be published shortly.
If you have not received a copy, write moonscapes@moonsociety.org
These issues are archived online at: http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/moonscapes/2010/
You can always unsubscribe at any time by simply clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each issue.
NOTE: f you are a user of Verizon'x or Earthlink's spam-blocking services and do not check requests to whitelist certain Moon Society addresses (president@moonsociety.org, teamdirector@moonsociety.org, kokhmmm@aol.com), you will not receive it.
Any "blocked" email addresses will be removed from our database; cooperation is a two-way street1
Your input on the first and future issues will be much appreciated.
MMM Themes Collections - http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_themes/
The following issues have been published:
Some additional planned issues:
- Mars 1 & 2
- Eden on the Moon 1 & 2 - (environmental themes)
- Select Editorials
- Asteroids
- Tourism
- Research
- Lunar Analog Research - published September, 2010
These Theme Issues are, like the Classics, free access pdf files, no member username and password needed. See download address above.
- Lavatubes on Moon and Mars
- The Lunar Economy (Exo-economics)
- At Home on the Moon
- Lunar surface activities
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:
- 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/flag/
- http://www.moonsociety.org/humor/ - under construction
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.org2011 1-sheet Meetings Calendars has been published
To download the first six 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
An updated look at chapter events.What is an "Outpost?"
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.
LATIN AMERICA - visit our Espaņol page - our Spanish language clone is in very early stages of constructionINDIA
Chile
Moon/Mars Atacama Research Station - .Funding is being handled through the University of Antofagasta, a major seaport in northern Chile.
An expedition to pick the site is planned for March 2011. The land is owned by the European Southern Observatory which operates the ALMA Radio Telescope array in the area.
MMM-Spanish Quarterly Protect Update - June 7, 2010
"Manifiesto Mineros de la Luna Trimestral" - proposed title, translation double checked
Dave Dunlop, Moon Society Director of Project Development and Society President Pater Kokh, have worked on a plan to advance this project. Peter will:
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.
Note: We have been encouraged to set up school-based chapters in Chile on the basis of English materials alone, as English-fluency is common among Chilean students. We may have an opportunity to get started on our visit to the University of Antofagasta currently planned for March 2011.
See MMM-India Quarterly - a free access pdf file newsletter
MMM-India Quarterly #7was published July 1st. M3IQ #8 should be published in 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, 6th, 7th and 8th issues of Moon Miners' Manifesto - India Quarterly - "M3IQ" as we have come to call it.Eventually, M3IQ will get a new name and a new look and be 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.
This time the dates are for the weekend before Memorial Day WeekendJuly 26 - August 7th, 2011 - 40th anniversary of Apollo 15 - we are considering a number of contests and competitions
