The Society held its Annual Meeting as mandated by its Bylaws this evening. Michael Mealling, President, gave the State of the Society Report and James Burk, Vice President, updated the Society on the results of the recent election:
For Board Seat #1 - Philip Crume #1623 ran unopposed and received 86% of the vote, and retained his seat.
For Board Seat #2 - Rose Dieteman #1340 ran unopposed and received 95% of the vote, and will now join the board.
On today's anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, the Moon Society is proud to announce the launching of our official book imprint Luna City Press and its first publishing project, which is Peter Kokh's very first book A Pioneer's Guide to Living on the Moon, now available for purchase on Amazon.com.
The Moon Society invites all members to attend our Annual Meeting which will be held on Sunday, August 5th at 6pm Central Time in our online Slack #auditorium channel.
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Our 2018-2019 election cycle is now underway. According to our bylaws, since this is an even-numbered year, we will be electing the following positions:
Here are the Candidate statements:
Moon Miners' Manifesto #302 has been published and is available online. You can read it here. In this issue: The Moon Society teams up with the Waypaver Foundation, Space Directive 1, Cislunar 1000, and the Moon Village Association Workshop Report.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Waypaver Foundation and the Moon Society Support Returning to the Moon
ATLANTA, OCTOBER 5, 2017 -- The Waypaver Foundation and the Moon Society, two organizations dedicated to the exploration, development, and eventual settlement of the Moon, enthusiastically support the Administration’s goal of returning to the moon.
Review: "The Value of the Moon" by Dr. Paul Spudis. Published April 2016 by Smithsonian Books. A few editing errors noted.
Do you dream about our future in space? The Moon Society is holding an art contest for the most inspired works of art relating to humanity's future on the Moon. This is your opportunity to help us show the world what that future looks like!
As a reminder, The Moon Society will be holding its annual meeting for 2014 on Wednesday, December 17th beginning at 9pm ET in the Artemis MOO (http://www.asi.org/adb/09/08/04/moo.html).
For discussion, here is the State of the Society as published in the December 2014 issue of MMM:
State of The Moon Society 2014
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There are any number of plans for the exploration of space out there in the marketplace of ideas. In the absence of much real-world progress, there is an inclination to plan for when there might be progress in the future. This often becomes a competition in the marketplace of ideas as agendas come into play, and some aspects of space exploration (and maybe development) are highlighted to the detriment of others as personal goals come into play.
One effort to address this was the Integrated Space Plan, which tried to take a meta approach to looking at our space efforts and determine which activities and technologies fed into what aspects of humanity's move out into the Solar System. Which aspects of exploration and development should be highlighted? How might they connect? What can help enable what else? Where are the synergies?