Introducing Two New Members of
the Society's Board of Advisors
August 18, 2010 - We introduced the first fifteen members of the Moon Society's then new members of our Board of Advisors in our November 28, 2004 report. Since then, we added five more on March 2, 2005, four more people to the Board of Advisors on January 17, 2007, and ten more on March 2, 2009.
2010.01.05 - Paul Spudis has asked, “Can we afford to return to the Moon?” and come up with an encouraging positive proposal.
You may be one of many members and other lunar frontier supporters who have been in the doldrums and somewhat discouraged over the cancellation of the Constellation program as too costly, and about the redirection of NASA away from the Moon.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23helium.html?_r=1&hpw
Helium-3 Crisis! Demand now exceeds supply by a factor of ten. The price has jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years
The NYT article fails to mention that Helium-3 is relatively abundant on the Moon.
<p class="post_link">Link: <a href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8TBYRA0G_index_0.html">http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8TBYRA0G_index_0.html</a></p><p>This discovery, made by the ESA-ISRO instrument "Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer" (SARA) onboard the Indian Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, suggests how water is likely being created on the lunar surface.</p>
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator
Lunar Elevator can be built today using commercial Zylon fiber.
Lunar Elevator gives cheap access to lunar materials, feedstock for space industries. We can extract oxygen for space tugs delivered to LEO.
To many casual observers, the Moon Society and its website may seem to be in a state of suspended animation. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, there are web pages that might need updating, and please do us a favor and call our attention to that so we can promptly correct our oversight.
Write a note to president@moonsociety.org Subject: web page needs to be updated
That’ll do it!
We have taken a lot of measures to help new members and older ones to keep up with our efforts.
July 20th 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. July 20th is also Space Exploration Day. After 40 years of space exploration it is time to begin space settlement. In order to honor all who risked their lives for space exploration and all who are dedicated to opening the new era of space settlement the Moon Society celebrates this day.
February 10, 2009 -- (Amended March 2, 2009 with the addition of Adriano Autino)
We introduced the first fifteen members of the Moon Society's then new Board of Advisors in our November 28, 2004 report and in the December issue of Moon Miners' Manifesto #181, page 11. Since then, we added five more on March 2, 2005, and four more people to the Board of Advisors on January 17, 2007.
Today we are happy to present ten more advisors. They are:
