Check out our Welcome Packet

From this page, you will be able to download several useful and informative pdf files, about the Moon Society's focus, on how to navigate this website, and more.

Just click on the Welcome Packet link at left.

 

You can take a study course on the Moon

This course, put together by our affiliate organization, the American Lunar Society, is designed to give you basic geology information and to help you learn to recognize the interesting features you can see on the side of the Moon always visible from from Earth, through a small telescope.

If you complete the course, you will get a certificate, and should you decide to join the Society, just let us know about the certificate and we will give you a $4 credit off your dues.

Just click on the link Moon Study Course at left

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You can sample our monthly newsletter, Moon Miners' Manifesto

MMM or "Moon Miners" or "The Manifesto" as it is variously called, has been coming out ten times a year since December, 1986, more than two decades! A regular theme of many articles focuses on how we can expand from an initial moon base to true civilian settlement, how pioneers will earn a living, how they will live, and how they will adapt as they come to be truly "at home" on the Moon.

We talk about transportation to and on the Moon, about mining the Moon, about mini-biospheres in which we will have to live, about arts and crafts based on moon dust and rock, about gardening and architecture, about sports, indoors, of course, but also out on the surface.

But once a year, usually in March, our newsletter focuses on Mars. We have explored Venus, Mercury, Europa, Titan, the asteroids and more, even nearby star systems.

Now you can get the current and recent issues (within the last three years or so) in hardcopy to your home, or as a pdf file that you can download to your computer, or both,
-- only through membership.

But we want you to know what you are getting,
so we have done three things:

(1) All the non-time-sensitive articles from the early years have been collected, reedited, and republished in pdf files, one per publication year. You can now freely access and download the first eighteen years of this material, the MMM Classics, at this address:

http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_classics/

(2) In addition, the publisher, our partner NSS chapter in Milwaukee, The Lunar Reclamation Society, maintains a free access directory of the Editor's choice of more recent issues at this address;

http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/mmm_samples/

(3) Finally, we want you to have a peek at recent issues, so we have put online (in pdf format) the covers of issues #s 207 and following, to whet your appetite.

http://www.moonsociety.org/publications/mmm_covers/

For more information, just click on the link Newsletter at left

 

Our Projects

Our projects are of two types, temporary, and ongoing

A example of the latter is the two week Moonbase simulation at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in early 2006 by a Moon Society crew of six. To learn about this click on Moonbase Trials at left.

Watch a PowerPoint presentation or a pdf file slide show about this experience. You can download either form this page.

Partly based on this experience, we have begun planning our own Lunar Analog Research Station. This planning is an ongoing work-in progress. But you can see where we are now by watching this PowerPoint presentation or pdf file slide show. You can download either version from this page.

An example of an ongoing project is our continuing work on our Moon-focused wiki. Check it out at the Lunarpedia link on the homepage right hand Destinations menu.

You don't have to become a member to post new articles or edit old ones on Lunarpedia. We welcome assistance on this project from anyone interested in the Moon.

For more on what we have done and are doing, click on Projects at left.

 

Our Blog

We do not post to our blog site regularly, but there have been lots of interesting posts. Anyone is welcome to check them out.

Just click on the Check our Blog link at left.

 

Ways Moon Society Members can get involved.

We have a system of Chapters and Outposts. Outposts can be just one person who serves as contact in a local community, or two or more persons not yet organized as a chapter. To learn more, click on Chapters & Outposts at left. If there is a chapter or outpost near you, you can always make contact and get acquainted, even if you have not joined the Society.

If you are are politically minded, we offer opportunities to help push legislation that will create a friendlier climate for private enterprise in space. For this purpose, we are collaborating with the National Space Society, with whom we are mutually affiliated. To learn more, click on Legislative Action at left.

For more ideas of how members can get involved, click on Volunteering at left

 

Additional opportunities to meet Moon Society members

The Moon Society regularly has a presence at the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference which is cosponsored by many organizations, including ours. To learn more, click on the ISDC link in the right hand Destinations Menu on our homepage.

We also inherited a discussion list from a previous organization, Artemis Society International. You don't have to be a Moon Society member to subscribe to Artemis-list.

To join the discussions, send email to majordomo@asi.org
with the body of your message containing the command:
subscribe artemis-list-digest
. . . or . . .
subscribe artemis-list

You can also log on as a guest in our special enhanced chat room environment. Click on the ASI-MOO image link below left.

 

Other information on this website

You will find the links mentioned below only our home page in the right hand Destinations menu.

Click on Lunar Directory for a list and descriptions of other Moon-focused organizations with whom we regularly collaborate.

For a list of annual conferences that we consider especially relevant to our goals, click on Conferences.

For additional papers from various Society-related sources, click on Online Papers.

For information on Moon Missions past, present, scheduled, and in the planning stages, click on Moon Missions

For much more information click on Moon Info & Things Lunar

Check our Downloads page

 

Watch and Listen to the Movers & Shakers of the "Back to the Moon" movement

Click on the image link Moon Colony Video top front center on our home page to watch 30 some informative videos.

Moon Society Presence elsewhere on the Internet

MySpace - Facebook- Yahoo Group - Change.org

Google Group - Railroading on the Moon & Mars
(a collaboration between the Moon Society & MarsDrive)

 

The Little Engine that Can

As you can see, we are into a lot of neat things. We are few in numbers in comparison to longer established space advocacy organizations. (The Moon Society was organized in July 2000.) But we are a determined group, and as our membership continues to grow we expect to get into much more creative and productive mischief in an effort to help advance the day when civilian pioneers will be living and working on the Moon.

So explore this website, learn about us, sample our newsletters, meet, some of our members in person, by email, or on the MOO.

You may email the president at any time - subject line "Moon Society Visitor"

Enjoy your visit!

Come back often.

When you are ready, we'd love to have you as part of the team!