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Display Items on Hand
11|19|2002
Our New Artemis
Moonbase Exhibit
[photo
of completed exhibit]
On 11|12|02 we completed work on a trifold Artemis Moonbase Storyboard featuring the 24" x 35" color Artemis Project Poster, along with a moonscape diorama and a model of the Artemis Moonbase.
left panel about the moonbase
right panel for-profit Moon missions
Photos should be available on 11|19|02. We posted complete illustrated instructions to replicate the entire exhibit, storyboard, diorama, and moonbase model on the Space Chapter Hub website in the hope that other Moon Society Outposts would produce their own.
The exhibit will debut on 12|14|02 at the annual holiday potluck and classic movie event of the Lunar Reclamation Society (NSS-Milwaukee) at which members of the Wisconsin Mars Society will be present.
This is the first exhibit produced exclusively by and for the Moon Society Milwaukee Outpost.
Items aquired or created by the Milwaukee-based Lunar Reclamation Society, an ASI & Moon Society supporting organization, are at the disposal of the Moon Society Milwaukee Outpost, if not already committed for a time-slot. These include:
A Self-standing display that first debuted at an "X-Con" science fiction convention in 1987. Made of a framework of sweated half-inch copper tubing supporting display panels of aluminum faced half inch foam sheathing, this 7 ft high, 2 ft thick and 8 ft long display offers 64 square feet of display space and an 8t. square foot table to hold flyers and informational handouts. The display cost about $50 to make (back then), comes apart and stacks in a 10" x 3'x4' package for EZ transport in a wagon or hatch back. It is very lightweight and can be handled, assembled, and disassembled easily by one person in minutes. The photos, prints, drawings, and posters displayed on the unit are periodically refreshed to remain relevant. The unit has been seen by many thousands of people over the years at more than 30 public outreach events.
Small self-standing display, 2' wide, 5' high, plexiglas two-sided, easily changeable, used to promote workshops and special events.
Globe of the Moon by Replogle. (We would like to acquire second hand 12" globes of Mars and of Venus, as Replogle no longer prints them).
We plan to make a proportionately-sized 2-dimensional photo of Earth in space as a backdrop for the Moon Globe. "Earth" would be 44' across in comparison to our 12" Moon. It could go on a 4' x4' piece of half inch foam core board. We could create this by blowing up an existing print, mosaic style, at Kinkos. (on this same scale of 12" = 2,160 miles [11,400,000:1], Earth and Moon would be 110' apart, with a 24" Mars ranging 3-20 miles away, the closest star 221 million miles distant)
A multi-fold display, modeled after the one used by Midwest Space Development Corp. to promote the annual MSDC conference. It is made of 14 foam core panels, each 20" wide and 40" high. Eight of them are covered on both sides with portions of two wallpaper murals* ("Earthrise" - Earth over a lunar landscape, and "Columbia in orbit" over an Earthscape). The other six panels are covered (using a fabric adhesive) on both sides with velcro-friendly blue fabric, for hanging pictures and info-items with male velcro tabs. The display sets up zigzag fashion, seven below, seven above, alternating mural and fabric panels. As you walk around the display, you see alternately just the Earthrise mural, then one set of info-display panels, just the Columbia mural, then the other set of info-displays. This unit was prepared in time to promote ISDC '98 in Orlando at ISDC '97 and has been used only twice otherwise. But the Lunar Reclamation Society hopes to use it again after new sets of items to hang on it have been prepared. For example, one side could promote LRS & MMM, the other side NSS, ASI, and SFF.
* These wallpaper murals come in 8 sections, 4 top, 4 bottom, and have combined dimensions of 8' 8" in height, 13' 8" in width. We selected a central portion 6' 8" in height and 6' 8' in width. We bonded them to the foam core pieces using a spray fabric adhesive. Then we trimmed the edges with half-inch black plastic U channels (hard to find).
"Z-Vue" Table model 1/8th scale working demonstration model of a periscopic picture window unit in a future Lunan homestead. Produced for ISDC '98 Lunar Homestead Exhibit, exhibited since at Discovery World Museum (2-day stand). The unit is 24" wide, and about 28" high and deep, and has two 8"x12" mirrors on 45° angles. The object (a model of the Apollo Lunar Lander) appears to be straight ahead of the viewer.
"Earth-Moon Gravity Brick Set" -- (a) one standard Earth brick weighing 3.5 lbs, (b) a much larger brick makable on the Moon and sized to weigh 3.5 lbs. (one Earth brick encased in styrofoam of negligible weight to the size of a 6-pack of Earth bricks, fleck-painted to look like ceramic), (c) a bonded 6-pack of Earth bricks, fleck painted to look like one brick, to show how much mass would go into the much lighter feeling (b). All the bricks have handles. This touchy-feely exhibit is very popular as it quickly gets across the idea of the Moon's 1/6th gravity. Produced in time for ISDC '98 Lunar Homestead Exhibit, and seen by thousands since at the Deke Slayton AirFest in LaCrosse.
NOTE: We have since put together a smaller scale 3 brick set representing Earth, Mars, and Moon gravity. in which the Earth brick weighs about 10 lbs. as compared to the 21 lb. "6-pack" described above. This set is much easier for young children to handle.
August 2002, we have modified the way we make the Moon and Mars bricks so that they are less vulnerable to handling damage by those who insist on pinching them (we try to make it clear that they are no actually from the Moon or Mars). The new bricks were field tested (with flying colors) at the EuroMARS Hab at Adler Planetarium in Chicago after mid-August 2002.
As of October 2002, some thirty sets have been produced for other chapters of the National Space Society, the Mars Society, and the Moon Society, and other organizations.
October 11, 2002 - We have put together and uploaded fully illustrated step by step instructions to produce your own "Earth, Mars, Moon Gravity Brick Set" with Materials List (and source suggestions), Tools List, and exhibit suggestions.
September 20, 2002 - We have uploaded illustrated instructions for making the faster, cheaper set of "Gravity Jugs"
"Moon Manor" - a table top model of a future modular lunar homestead. Set on a hollow core 36"x80" door, this spacious "3500 sq. ft." [1' to 1 meter or roughly 1:40 scale] Lunan Home is constructed of 4" schedule 40 PVC Modules fleck painted to simulate either glass-glass composite or fiberglass reinforced lunar concrete.
With cutaways to show the interior, it is partially covered with three "meters" of regolith soil (sheets of contour-shaped 3/4" styrofoam).The home has four periscopic windows (not working) one facing each cardinal direction, and a half dozen sun-following heliostats dumping sunlight into a central gallery loop lined with planter beds fed by toilet wastes (working odor-free system of retired NASA environmental engineer, Dr. Bill Wolverton).
Spacious, full of sunlight, rich with green foliage and plant-refreshed air, and with picture windows out on to the moonscape, Moon Manor is connected to a pressurized sunlit tube-street to other parts of the settlement.
The interior of the model is lit. Costing about $400 and taking three weeks of effort to put together, this display catches the eye, and easily gets across the major lessons of how people might someday be quite at home living on the Moon. Underground, yes. Moles, no. [See MMM #1, DEC '86 for the inspiration behind this display.]
The display takes two people to handle and weighs about 80 lbs. At 80" bit long for most station wagon or pickup beds. We are toying with the idea of shortening it to 72" but this would be a major job. Moon Manor debuted at ISDC '98 in Milwaukee, was twice at Discovery World Museum, once at Children's Hospital, once at Moonlink Headquarters in De Pere and seen by NASA Administrator, Dan Griffin. It was seen by thousands at the La Crosse airfest in June of '98 and by hundreds at MarsCon in Minneapolis, in February '99.
Click Here to see a diagram. We have received requests for blueprints and assembly instructions, but have been too busy to produce them as yet. Here are some thumbnail photos of "Moon Manor" on display (click on the thumbnail to see the larger picture):
NOTE: We intend to put together a downloadable "Moon Manor Reproduction Kit" with Parts List, Source Suggestions, Diagrams, & Intructions. A proposed improvement is to shorten the display from 80" to 72" to make it transportable by more vehicles (as well as a few pounds lighter)
National Geographic Map of the Moon - Framed
Artemis Project™ Poster - Mounted - We are working (October '02) on a same size (24" x36") companion panel to give more information about the Moonbase Design and Deployment and about the For-profit Moon Mission plans of a number of companies. When completed, plans to replicate this display will be uploaded to the Space Chapter Hub on this page.
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