March 2000 Laingholm On The Launchpad
Vic Olliver has published his latest issue of "Laingholm On The Launchpad".  "A slightly irreverent monthly review of what's cooking in the space business"

Mar. 29, 2000 Meteoroid Bombardment Of Moon Has Intensified In Past 500 Million Years, Coinciding With Blossoming Of Life On Earth
A new chronology of meteoroid impacts on the moon shows some surprising correlations with major biological events on Earth. (Science Daily)

Mar. 27, 2000 SpaceDev Teams With Wireless Future To Reduce Spacecraft Communication Costs
SpaceDev and Wireless Future, Inc. will jointly develop and market a next-generation, miniaturized, low-cost STDN-compatible transponder (the MST-21TM), for use on government and commercial lunar and earth-orbiting missions. (Space Daily)

Mar. 21, 2000 Lunar Caves: The Ultimate Cool, Dry Place
"[Lava tubes] offer stable temperatures free from the wild dayspan-nightspan thermal roller coaster on the lunar surface," says Peter Kokh, a former board member of the National Space Society who edits Moon Miners' Manifesto.  "And they offer freedom from the omnipresent troublesome dust." (Space.com)

Mar. 21, 2000 Future 'Martians' Could Live in Caves
Colonization efforts on the Moon and Mars may be able to utilize lava tube caves as ready made shelter.  The caves could provide shelter from cosmic radiation and micro-meteorite danger. (Space.com)

Mar. 20, 2000 Next, Go Back to the Moon
NASA should return people to the moon, before reaching for Mars -- or the agency will die, asserts scientist and author Paul Spudis. (Space.com)

Mar. 17, 2000 Four-wheeling on the Moon
The first interplanetary Sports Utility Vehicle makes a comeback for NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race in April, 2000.  "The Great Moon Buggy Race" (NASA's Space Science News)

Mar. 15, 2000 Breakthrough Could Boost Solar Efficiency To 40%
A new manufacturing process which adds a small amount of nitrogen to materials used to make solar cells promises to boost the amount of energy that can be generated from the cells. (Space Daily)

Mar. 12, 2000 India Craves The Moon To Crown Its Space Odyssey
The Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO), which is tinkering with a rocket engine for its glitch-ridden Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) project, says an unmanned lunar mission could be launched by 2008.  Along with the article there is a great false color picture of the moon taken by Galileo showing the surface mineral distribution. (Space.com)

Mar. 11, 2000 Space: No Air. No Gravity. No Taxes?
Currently there is a bill before Congress that would make most business activities in space tax free for the next 25 years. (Space.com)

Mar. 10, 2000 Scientists Set Stage for Lively Conference
The 31st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is set to take place the week of March 13th in Houston, Texas. (Space.com)

Mar. 10, 2000 Life From Extraterrestrial Seeding? - Dating of Moon Impacts Suggests Link to Flowering of Complex Species
A sudden proliferation of living things on Earth 500 million years ago coincided with an increase in meteor and comet impacts on the moon, providing new evidence that exotic organic compounds from space may have played a role in the evolution of life on our planet, a new study suggests. (Washinton Post)

Mar. 09, 2000 Berkeley Study Of Lunar Cratering History Finds Surprising Increase at Time of Cambrian Explosion
A team of Berkeley researchers, analyzing the history of impact cratering on the moon, has reported a surprising increase in the frequency of impacts over the past 400 million years that may have played a central role in the evolution of life on Earth. (Spaceref.com & UC Berkeley)

Mar. 02, 2000 Epcot gears up for space flight
Disney, with the help of NASA, is working on a new edition to the Epcot section of its park in Florida.  The Space Pavilion is expected to open in 2002 or 2003. (Orlando Sentinel)

Mar. 01, 2000 Moon Trip Proposed for British Lottery Prize
The company that operates Britain's National Lottery has suggested a moon trip as a possible prize in the lottery's next decade. (Space.com)

Mar. 01, 2000 High Hopes: A Sports Stadium in Space?
Futurists discuss the possibilities of sports on the moon and in orbital stations. (Space.com)

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