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March 30, 2010 - shown above is the masthead of the current quarterly edition of MMM-India being published for the space community in India.
We have been publishing this Quarterly edition, in pdf format only, with the download link to be emailed to various organizations and email-lists in India and elsewhere.

While there is a strong focus on India's space program and India's future in space, including the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter and proposed future lunar missions, there is also Indian space news in general, plus a selection of articles from MMM issues current and past deemed by the editorial board to be of interest to Indian readers.

India has the largest English-speaking population of any country in the world. This is a legacy of the long British Raj (rule) prior to India's independence in I947. India publishes more books in English than any other country. English is in fact a world language and it belongs as much to India as it does to speakers in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and everywhere else that the British Union Jack once ruled: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Singapore, and more.

India is now a member of the Lunar Exploration Club, along with the USA, Russia (formerly USSR), China, and Japan. Its former president, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, eloquently sketched India's future in space in an April 12, 2007 address at Boston University on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik 1. See the front page In Focus editorial in MMM #205, May 2007

In this speech he saw the need for India to turn to Solar Power Satellites (1) to build with lunar materials, for the energy the country would need to industrialize if it desired to share the prosperity of the West, and (2) to desalinize seawater so that India's growing population could have abundant clean water.

We released our introductory issue just after Chandrayaan-1 had settled into its design lunar orbit and had begun its two year science mission, with the release of its Impact Probe which successfully crashed at the Lunar South Pole in an attempt to release suspected ice/water vapor in the splashout.

The current editorial staff includes Peter Kokh (editor of Moon Miners' Manifesto), David A. Dunlop (Society Director of Project Development), and Madhu Thangavelu (author and educator at the University of Southern California), and Srinivas Laxman of Mumbai, India.

Our intent has been to circulate this publication freely, so that anyone can access it. Of course, in each issue, we will advertise Moon Miners' Manifesto, which will continue to be available only as a Moon Society membership benefit.

The Moon Society has always sought to be an International one, but except for a handful plus of members in Canada, Mexico, Ireland, the UK, Sweden, Australia, Chile, and elsewhere, this goal has remained elusive.

If you have suggestions or feedback on this publication and outreach venture, or wish to contribute an article or news item, send them to

mmm-india@moonsociety.org